In March 2020, Breonna Taylor was shot and killed by police in her Louisville apartment.

Her death sparked protests across the country.

Now, almost three years later, a public art installation in Lexington is celebrating her life and memorializing her death.

We're here to dedicate this beautiful piece.

The name of this place is at the Clearing.

I think this place speaks to our need as a community to acknowledge injustice as it happens to black people.

We wanted to engage the community.

We wanted something big and substantial because the crimes against us remain big and substantial.

And we also wanted a place where people could come and like with the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, the Jews came to mourn there.

They would sit in front of it and cry and put their prayers right into the crevices of the wall.

And that's what we wanted to build a gathering space so that people can put their own thoughts about what happened to Brianna, what's happening all over the country right there.

The tragic death of this young woman was Alton Whitley, a catalyst for all of us to do better.

We are speaking up against police brutality.

Our voices are elevated in literature.

Our voices are elevated in art.

Amplify and also celebrate it to grow what we can imagine.

Our bodies in rhyme, the third of whole and acts.

When I got to read Dr. Shawna Morgan's poem, it inspired me because I really had the visuals.

But then I needed another layer to to be able to speak out.

This collaboration itself of, you know, the literary and the visual, I think, pushed the boundaries of what a sculpture and a painting could also be.

And so apart from remembering Breonna Taylor and knowing what happened, you know, I want also people to see the transitioning of how to represent art and how to remember people.

I want people to leave with a sense that, wow, this horrible thing happened.

How do we do better?

How do we do better as individuals and the community?

If you remember, in 2020, the world acknowledged the death of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

There were protests worldwide.

To say, we see this is it, right?

Black Lives Matter.

And that's what I want people to walk away with when they see this.

Our voices matter.

The title of the piece at the Clearing reference is a fictional place in Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Beloved.

If you're interested in visiting, the piece has found its forever home in front of the Met, a residential and retail complex in Lexington's historic East End.