‘Death by Gun, Daily’ is composed of 100 prints, one for each of the >100 people that die every day in our country by guns, whether from suicide, homicide, accident, mass shooting or other. 

Each print contains a silhouette representing a person that died, with a scrim behind as they fade away. The scrim on each print represents the separation between remembered and forgotten, between here and gone. Each has a hashtag from just a slice of the many gun control arguments talked about on social media, depicting various perspectives: right, left, centric – some used by multiple groups, obscuring meaning and intent. 

The prints are attached to wire fencing, representing the barriers that exist around this sensitive issue. The people are gone, they leave an indelible but fading mark behind as we move on to new topics.

The dialogue in social media is about the gun issue - a fence exists there too, between beliefs & solutions. The golden yellow in the center shines a light on the subject. When we lose this many people daily, what should we be talking about? Where is the conversation about the individuals we’ve lost? How did this fence come to exist? How do we break down barriers to end this loss?

The entire piece is available for public display.