I’m not an artist exactly either, but for a little while now I’ve been thinking about this idea of putting haunting images of the protests into captchas. I finally put the images together last night.

Like many white people right now, I have the privilege of just scrolling past pain and horror when it’s not happening to me directly, or I can miss the bigger picture of what needs to be done. By putting these images in captchas, it makes it all too clear how easy it is to miss the larger picture and just… click through.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(This one isn’t from the last few weeks, it’s from Charlottesville in 2017, but it speaks at the same volume as the others.)

 

 

 

Photo notice and photo credit

I believe these are ok to use under the fair use doctrine but if the rights holder would like me to take them down, I will.

• Crosswalks: Patrick Lantrip, AP
• Traffic Lights: Elizabeth Burns
• Statues: Keir Gravil, Reuters
• Vehicles (Seattle): Reuters
• Vehicles (New York): screenshot
• Vehicles (Charlottesville): Ryan Kelly, Daily Progress