Matthew Hincman is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He ignored official procedure and mounted a small monument to slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin atop a lamppost in Boston’s Jamaica Plain. Boston.com reports:
The top of the monument is flat and features a small hooded sweatshirt that appears to have been tossed on the ground. On the side of the fixture, Hincman inscribed his name and the message, “Still, 2014.”
Across the street from Martin’s monument is a granite Civil War monument, which is dedicated to about two dozen West Roxbury men that died in the Civil War.
The professor told WBUR that the proximity of the Civil War monument to Martin’s adds another dimension of meaning:
By pairing Martin’s death with the Civil War monument, Hincman aimed to make “a contemporary marker to how far we’ve come in terms of race relations, in terms of power and equality since the end of slavery, since the end of the Civil War.”
Without permission, a Boston artist installed this tiny street art monument to #TrayvonMartin: http://t.co/dxTEYzxVc2 pic.twitter.com/EuTFHUbNXc
— WBUR (@WBUR) June 18, 2014
Hincman scoffed at getting permission to set up his tribute “because ‘he remains skeptical of the city’s public art approval process.’”
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