Statues have been having a real moment, so to speak, as people the world over have been reconsidering what it means to still have monuments to figures who enslaved others and slaughtered indigenous populations. The reckoning, which has resulted in protesters toppling statues across the globe, has been destructive and cathartic. But The Guardian reports that an artist in Bristol, England, has taken the opportunity to replace a statue of Edward Colston, an English trader of enslaved people, with a new beautiful statue of Jen Reid, a protester for the Black Lives Matter movement.\n
in the air. Artist Marc Quinn toldand worked with Reid for weeks to get the installation just right. “I hope this sculpture will continue that dialogue, keep it in the forefront of people’s minds, be an energy conductor,” Quinn toldwhen she stood on the plinth with all the hope of the future of the world flowing through her—
made the possibility of greater change feel more real than it has before.” Quinn has aptly named the statue “Surge of Power .”Bristol residents who have seen the statue of Reid are already describing it as iconic,he entire work, from the top of her fist down to her shoes, emanates regality and power. Quinn, a white artist, was also able to do something that many white artists fail to do—
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