They commissioned the largest fleet of skywriting planes in the country, called Skytypers, to fly over 80 sites in the U.S. (former internment camps, ICE detention centers, and Ellis Island, among many more).
, more than 5,400 children have been separated from their parents at the Mexico border since 2017. As of May 2020, some 25,421 people are locked up in these immigrant detention centers around the country. And as of January of this year, 81% of people detained in ICE custody nationwide are being held in detention centers owned by private prison corporations.
Led by the artists Cassils and rafa esparza, the project is titled In Plain Sight. A group of organizers—including artist Hank Willis Thomas,, and lawyer Chase Strangio—formed a coalition more than a year ago and asked 80 artists to create phrases or words that speak to the immigration issues in the U.S. They then commissioned the largest fleet of skywriting planes in the country, called Skytypers, to fly over 80 sites in the U.S.
For Cassils, and all the artists involved, timing is everything: “On the Fourth of July especially, through this grandiose display of skywriting, we feel like this is a patriotic act for artists to really raise their voices and then we can ask ourselves: ‘What does it mean to celebrate America today?’”Below, a few of the artists of the In Plain Sight project share their thoughts behind their skywriting messages in the hope of a truly free future.
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