It’s been lovely to see so many portraits of Renee Good from artists in the last weeks, and I can’t help but feel that all those killed by ICE deserve the same kind of acknowledgement. I will be drawing every one we know of from the last year, Renee Good included.
It’s a challenging project for a few reasons. There’s limited information available about many of the individuals who were killed, and if photos are available they’re often not of ideal quality. I'd like to represent each person as free, so I will be avoiding the use of booking photos as reference. For those with no photos publicly available at all, I will letter their names composed within a silhouette, to give them as much weight and consideration as the rest.
Most of these deaths happened in hidden places, where ICE can attempt to control the narrative with abhorrent rationalizations and obfuscations. Every death in ICE custody is a murder, as far as I’m concerned. I do not accept the dehumanization of any of these people.
This page will be updated as I add new portraits.
