Cara Levine: This Is Not a Gun, Cell Phone

This Is Not a Gun, Cell Phone2020cast water-based resinreplica of ceramic cell phone made by a high-school participant at Beyond Resistance: California Lobby Day, Sacramento, CA, 2019, in collaboration with the ACLUEdition of 72 x 4 x 1/4 inches Note: Due to the nature of the material, each cast is unique.  100% of the proceeds from this sale will go to GiveDirectly's COVID-19 efforts. This Is Not a Gun is a long-term, multidisciplinary project, which endeavors to utilize collective creative activism to open space for healing and cultivate an increased awareness around racial profiling, police brutality, and societal trauma in America. This Is Not a Gun responds to objects that police officers have mistaken for guns, during a shooting of an unarmed civilian to open dialogue and consider how everyday objects, such as a broomstick, bible, set of keys, iPod, sunglasses, and a pack of Skittles are transformed into ones of perceived threat through the lens of racism and power. The project,