Say Their Names
Silver Lake Memorial
A community public art project organized by by Eli Caplan and Micah Woods, June 2020
Torn cloth woven into the chain link fence that surrounds Los Angeles’ 2.2mile Silver Lake Reservoir spells out the names of 259 unarmed Black people killed by police across the United States. The ages of the victims range from 7 to 72 and their deaths span 71 years.
Woods and Caplan were moved to action by the murder of George Floyd by a Minnesota police officer on May 25, 2020.