What budding hip-hop artist Deshaun Jones (1998-2013) thought as he sat on his home stoop will never be known. A few doors down, on the corner, a group of young men were playing craps.
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April 26, 2025 at 12:45 PM
What budding hip-hop artist Deshaun Jones (1998-2013) thought as he sat on his home stoop will never be known. A few doors down, on the corner, a group of young men were playing craps.
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#MGVM ##Marcherstories #portraits ##artactivism
Why did her portrait enable an advance in art? Was it because I mainly painted her outdoors at Fort McHenry Park during lovely spring days?
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#MGVM #artactivism ##Marcherstories
May 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Why did her portrait enable an advance in art? Was it because I mainly painted her outdoors at Fort McHenry Park during lovely spring days?
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#MGVM #artactivism ##Marcherstories
This next Marcher represents a portrait that gave me a breakthrough in ability. Her story brought out a hidden depth in me. She will appear again in my next category.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
This next Marcher represents a portrait that gave me a breakthrough in ability. Her story brought out a hidden depth in me. She will appear again in my next category.
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#MGVM #artactivism #Marcherstories
That modest dream was shattered when a shooter carrying out a hit job on her customer burst into the salon, gun blazing. Her head took a bullet, killing her instantly. Her customer was wounded, but survived.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
That modest dream was shattered when a shooter carrying out a hit job on her customer burst into the salon, gun blazing. Her head took a bullet, killing her instantly. Her customer was wounded, but survived.
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#MGVM #artactivism ##Marcherstories
To this day, I've not seen any news that anyone was brought in for Deshaun's murder. As the 22nd Marcher, Deshaun brought two challenges. The first is to use dramatic shadowing to bring out the uniqueness of the subject.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
To this day, I've not seen any news that anyone was brought in for Deshaun's murder. As the 22nd Marcher, Deshaun brought two challenges. The first is to use dramatic shadowing to bring out the uniqueness of the subject.
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#MGVM #Marcherstories #artactivism
If you go on YouTube, search Lor' Deshaun, or the rap "Bodie 'Em", on the channel Big G Filmz, you will see Deshaun Jones starting his dream. A fragment of work from a fragment of a life.
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April 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
If you go on YouTube, search Lor' Deshaun, or the rap "Bodie 'Em", on the channel Big G Filmz, you will see Deshaun Jones starting his dream. A fragment of work from a fragment of a life.
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#MGVM #Marcherstories #artactivism
Her name was Truc Thi Ly Nyugen (1971-2014). She is the 40th Marcher to join the crusade. She worked every at a salon as a manicurist in East Baltimore. She and her fiance arrived in America with hopes of working hard for a house of their own, so they could marry.
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May 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Her name was Truc Thi Ly Nyugen (1971-2014). She is the 40th Marcher to join the crusade. She worked every at a salon as a manicurist in East Baltimore. She and her fiance arrived in America with hopes of working hard for a house of their own, so they could marry.
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I can say that the men are in prison for this. I can also say that this portrait has been delivered into her mother's hands. May it make the lifelong suffering she carries a little less bitter.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can say that the men are in prison for this. I can also say that this portrait has been delivered into her mother's hands. May it make the lifelong suffering she carries a little less bitter.
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Whoever was the intended target, a car full of shooters were firing recklessly enough that McKenzie was struck and died immediately. The porch was not enough protection. All attempts to resuscitate failed. Her sparkle was doused forever.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Whoever was the intended target, a car full of shooters were firing recklessly enough that McKenzie was struck and died immediately. The porch was not enough protection. All attempts to resuscitate failed. Her sparkle was doused forever.
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##MGVM ##artactivism ##Marcherstories
Such was the case with Mackenzie Elliot. She was three years old in 2014, just finding out the excitement in being able to form complex thought into speech. The whole block loved her bright eyes and happy ways.
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June 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Such was the case with Mackenzie Elliot. She was three years old in 2014, just finding out the excitement in being able to form complex thought into speech. The whole block loved her bright eyes and happy ways.
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#MGVM #artactivism #Marcherstories
There's nothing like the laughter of small children. Joyous, gurgling with pure glee, before the struggles of growing up take place. Over years, the pure mirth vanishes. Or it could stop suddenly.
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#MGVM #artactivism #Marcherstories
June 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
There's nothing like the laughter of small children. Joyous, gurgling with pure glee, before the struggles of growing up take place. Over years, the pure mirth vanishes. Or it could stop suddenly.
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#MGVM #artactivism #Marcherstories
The breakthrough is that I begin to somehow detach from my own identity enough to allow the subject themselves to "communicate " who they were freely. I become a true messenger in paint. I owe Truc Thi Ly Nguyen a great debt for this.
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May 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The breakthrough is that I begin to somehow detach from my own identity enough to allow the subject themselves to "communicate " who they were freely. I become a true messenger in paint. I owe Truc Thi Ly Nguyen a great debt for this.
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A car full of other young men, engines revving full steam, sped down the block. A hail of bullets from multiple guns blazed toward the crap players.Many were wounded. Only Deshaun, who was minding his own thoughts, was killed.
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April 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A car full of other young men, engines revving full steam, sped down the block. A hail of bullets from multiple guns blazed toward the crap players.Many were wounded. Only Deshaun, who was minding his own thoughts, was killed.
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What was it like for you the day before starting your first day of high school? Those four years are the last labyrinth to feel through before real maturity. Until then, you're expected to act adult, but live with constraints of a child.
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April 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
What was it like for you the day before starting your first day of high school? Those four years are the last labyrinth to feel through before real maturity. Until then, you're expected to act adult, but live with constraints of a child.
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#MGVM ##Marcherstories
The challenge is, how does one paint such a lovely, glamorous, cheerful, friendly, outgoing Marcher when the artist themself has none of these qualities? The artist must, so the rest of the world can see what we miss from her stolen life.
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#MGVM ##artactivism ##portraits ##Marcherstories
April 23, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The challenge is, how does one paint such a lovely, glamorous, cheerful, friendly, outgoing Marcher when the artist themself has none of these qualities? The artist must, so the rest of the world can see what we miss from her stolen life.
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#MGVM ##artactivism ##portraits ##Marcherstories
They were attacked by a man hired for the job by a woman who harbored jealousy toward one the thought was a love rival. It wasn't Gennie. She was not the intended target. Both man and woman are in prison.
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#MGVM #artactivist #portraits #Marcherstories
April 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
They were attacked by a man hired for the job by a woman who harbored jealousy toward one the thought was a love rival. It wasn't Gennie. She was not the intended target. Both man and woman are in prison.
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#MGVM #artactivist #portraits #Marcherstories
She and three close girlfriends were just sitting outside on a beautiful May day, talking about their post graduation plans,and laughing. A spray of rapid gunfire hit them all. Three survived. Gennie was the lone fatality.
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#MGVM #artactivism #portraits ##Marcherstories
April 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
She and three close girlfriends were just sitting outside on a beautiful May day, talking about their post graduation plans,and laughing. A spray of rapid gunfire hit them all. Three survived. Gennie was the lone fatality.
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#MGVM #artactivism #portraits ##Marcherstories
After losing his son and spending months in recovery, one wonders if Rashad ever considered doing some things differently. The answer is no. Four years later, Rashad was killed in a similar ambush. I have no photo of Rashad, thus I'm unable to paint him too.
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April 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
After losing his son and spending months in recovery, one wonders if Rashad ever considered doing some things differently. The answer is no. Four years later, Rashad was killed in a similar ambush. I have no photo of Rashad, thus I'm unable to paint him too.
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#MGVM #Marcherstories
Despite bystanders doing their best to help until emergency vehicles arrived, Carter's little soft body was no match for a semi automatic weapon. He never made it to the hospital.
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#MGVM #victimsofgunviolence #Marcherstories
April 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Despite bystanders doing their best to help until emergency vehicles arrived, Carter's little soft body was no match for a semi automatic weapon. He never made it to the hospital.
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#MGVM #victimsofgunviolence #Marcherstories