This artwork is meant to serve as a warning and as a discouragement to the people of the present and the future. Statues and paintings can be used as a piece of tribute, solidifying the subject’s importance in history throughout the ages to come, but these pieces of art can also be used as a voice of dissent, highlighting the evil that some brought forth in the world through their actions.

Handprint has been a sign of protest for a long time. I have tried to incorporate the element of protest through that symbol. Although a website is an unusual canvas for an art piece, programming a website helped me realize the artwork in a better way and on a larger scale. On a canvas, the handprints would be just mine, and so would be the dissent. But by creating a website, I created a shared experience where people can not only express themselves, but also be a part of this artwork. With each handprint, this artwork grows and brings added meaning. You can choose whom to punish, and you can leave some without your print. For some, the death toll is so high that it will take a collective effort that spans multiple years to get to the total number of lives they took. I hope that this long period and shared effort will lead to the realization of how many lives they took away in such a short time and how long it takes to fill the canvas back to that number.

People dissented against are portrayed with the help of line drawings. Line drawings have an imperfection to them. They are not the exact portrait of someone. They introduce marks and curves to places that wouldn't exist in a realistic portrait. By introducing these imperfections, my goal is to present an imperfect person (the subject of the drawing). Killers aren’t all that they were, but with their actions or their agendas they caused immense suffering. This helps present them as humans who did terrible things. Showing them as humans allows the observer to relate with the subject in some way and allows the creation of caution and doubt within themselves about their ethics. Merely presenting the subjects as monsters (or not humans) would allow the observer to have an outer experience where they would never question their own choices because they do not see themselves as monsters and are far removed from them.