A Stark Rendering of a Life Incomplete

A conversation with Adrian Brandon, author of the Stolen Series.

I was first introduced to Adrian Brandon’s Stolen Series when Viola Davis shared an image on her instagram page. Stolen is a portrait series dedicated to Black people who have been killed by the police. Adrian uses time as a medium to define how long each portrait is colored in; one year of life equals one minute of color. Adrian started the series in February 2019. I didn’t see it until 2020 when most of America was raw from the murder of George Floyd and…