Eighty artists and activists have written cloud-like messages in the sky made from water vapour to protest immigration policy and mass incarceration in America.
In Plain Sight is a project founded by Cassils and Rafa Esparza that involves a group including the Black Panther Party's former minister of culture Emory Douglas, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, and artists Dread Scott and Bamby Salcedo.
In Plain Sight founded by Cassils and Rafa Esparza asks artists and activists to write messages in the sky to protest American immigration policy and mass incarceration
The messages were written in the sky with water vapour emitted from small planes flew above jails, detention centres and border locations in California, New York, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Georgia and Louisiana over Independence Day weekend, 3 to 4 July. The phrase "Care not cages" written by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors flew over Los Angeles
Phrases included "Care not cages", "Health is wealth", "Stop crimmigration now" and "Arrest ICE" to protest the detainment and treatment of thousands of immigrants in detention centres under Customs and Border Protection and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Artist Bamby Salcedo wrote "Stop Crimmigration now" which flew in Los Angeles
"As the planes soar, they will make visible in the sky what is too often unseen and unspoken on the ground: the appalling, profoundly...