POINT & SHOOT, a mourning thought (though I am more enraged than in mourning)
2016

Digital print

This work draws its central text and image from a campaign rally held during the Republican presidential primaries in 2016. Speaking to a crowd at a Christian college in Iowa, candidate Donald Trump boasted wildly of his poll numbers and the loyalty of his supporters: "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's like incredible." As Rosler notes, Trump's chaotic delivery of such utterances, often seen as absurd, creates a fog that obscures other realities. The names in the background are those of some of the unarmed Americans, people of color, mostly African Americans but also Latinos and Native Americans, who have died at the hands of police or while in their custody. The officers involved have rarely been indicted.