Original Sin: Chicago Style Sculpture

As a former homicide reporter for the old City News Bureau of Chicago, I covered murders on the streets of Chicago in 1997 and 1998. Often felt like I was writing the same story over and over again. I believe newspaper readers and television news readers feel the same about reading and watching these stories. They are important however, because each person has a story. That said, we have become desensitized. For myself, 18 years after covering my first homicide, it often feels like nothing has changed in Chicago. With this piece, I wanted to show a couple things. You'll notice that the child mannequin is just a body, no race or gender. It could be any child in Chicago, and is. The child's crime is being born in this city. Then, using local newspapers from a three month period in 2016, I also wanted to show that because homicides are so commonplace here that you can take paragraphs from different stories and combine them without notice. I did that on the chest of the child. On the back of the child, I took phrases that I wrote countless times and that readers have no doubt seen over and over. And throughout, I took single words that we read and hear on a daily basis to emphasize the madness that is considered normal and overwhelm the visitor to this piece. I urge the people who see this piece to read it. Bob Chiarito

Sculpture:Fiberglass on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 31 H x 13 D in

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