Jamal Thorne, Co-Defendant No. 3, 2023

Jamal Thorne

Co-Defendant No. 3, 2023

Found materials, acrylic paint, cardboard

36 x 34 inches unframed
43 x 40 inches framed

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I lead them I teach them Let them go Send me to jail I can keep doing it They need me the most Surviving a broken system Shouldn’t be a...

I lead them

I teach them

Let them go

Send me to jail

I can keep doing it

They need me the most

Surviving a broken system

Shouldn’t be a crime

I’m not surprised

I will enter a guilty plea

- Jamal Thorne on what he imagines these figures would say in the courtroom in their defense.

Image References:

Chadwick Boseman

Kendrick Lamar

European King’s Crown

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