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Jack Balas, 2022;
CENOTAPH (UNTIL THE NEXT GODDAMN TIME) (#2370);
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches

A response to the shooting of 5 people at Club Q, a gay club in Colorado Springs on November 19, 2022, that date being inscribed on the young man's arm.

Additional dates on his arm are June 12, 2016, the date of the slaughter of 49 people at the PULSE gay club in Orlando, Florida; as well as October 6, 1998, when Matthew Shepard was tortured and left to die lashed to a fence near Laramie, Wyoming.