

Painting a better picture #1


New York artist Kambui Olujimi has created ink on paper works detailing the burning of the third precinct in Minneapolis, based on live video footage. “There’s a popular notion that riots are just spontaneous outbursts of emotion, a visceral response to a single incident, but they are not,” says Olujimi. “These actions are the result of persistent and untenable conditions that are willfully ignored,