Cenotaph 12 is a multi-screen installation that documents the intersection of daily life, structural inequality, social violence and the legacy of history on the South Side of Chicago where I’ve lived and worked for almost two decades. The piece examines how these forces are reflected and refracted through my own lens, social media and the surveillance state and then consumed and re-played and transmitted over and over again. The film starts in a public, impersonal and structural phase and moves implicitly into the personal lives of a group of young men who have lived within this space for their entire lives.