Final Presentation

Final Presentation

Jaden Johnston and Mercy Schmidt

PB&J

Police Brutality and Justice

By: Jaden Johnston and Mercy Schmidt

Police Brutality and Justice is a wearable designed to lead the viewers to start asking questions about gun-related violence. This project is intended to make the viewers feel uncomfortable and curious while looking at the piece. It is created to look like how an everyday student would dress, with harsh graphics across the outfit, representing that this problem occurs sporadically. This project’s main target is students of color, and its viewers target students and young adults. Throughout our piece, there is an intended placement of what each graphic represents. 

PB&J’s outfit consists of a white t-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a jean jacket. On the t-shirt, it has handprints specifically placed where the police would touch the victim, as well as blood and bullet holes. The jeans have rips, bullet holes, blood dripping, and tears. The jean jacket has a policeman holding a gun pointing to the Black Lives Matter fist, along with the word Distrust across the back. Each of these graphics are powerful in the piece to represent and display how much police brutality affects people.