Artist and activist Billie Krishawn discussed the art she’s been
documenting in downtown Washington, DC, around Lafayette Park.
Americans have been turning their pain into beauty on streets and
walls, she says, and officials have been engaged in a full-time
erasure of it. There is a struggle playing out on surfaces as well as
in three dimensional space, and it is important to commemorate this
struggle without endangering those involved. She also describes the
solidarity she’s felt in the streets and how people involved in these
protests are managing their own community.