TIME turned to artist Lavett Ballard to create a cover that would present a challenge to the reader and to America: How did we arrive at this moment? And what is the way forward?
Ballard’s visual practice involves layering images, mostly of ordinary African Americans, to create visual connections from past to present. The artist’s use of picket fences is powerfully symbolic of an idyllic life, and also of exclusion, and the idea that on the other side of that fence lies inclusion and safety. It is a call to viewers to broaden their ideas of who is worthy of protection and safety and whose stories get told.
For this piece, Lavett says she wanted to depict a multi-racial group of ordinary people who stood up to the powerful forces of caste-based oppression throughout history, folks who could serve as guides and inspiration to us in finding a way forward. The history of how ordinary people can and do stand against the injustice of the caste-enforced social order, at great personal risk, is too often forgotten, Lavett says. This piece is her visual manifestation of that history, in hopes that acknowledgment of that past will allow all of us to navigate a way forward—a way that may not be easy, but that can lead to a better and more equitable world.
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