This short photo-essay is a look at the many ways Brooklynites address and interact with the invisible, be it perceived demons, gods, a God—or the dead. As Herman Melville wrote: “Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.”
Bed-Stuy’s "gravestone murals" are not sanctioned public art; therefore, they have no protections. When we lose these murals, what have we lost?
In the historic neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, murals exist to keep the community together– and to help it remember.
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