On Aug. 25, Karen Fiorito, in collaboration with the Grand Avenue Billboard Project, put up an art installation depicting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and members of the Ku Klux Klan standing side-by-side, both ominously masked, hiding their identities. In bold: “1922” and “2025”.
“It’s just kind of our way of fighting back and saying ‘this isn’t normal’,” Fiorito told CALÓ News.
The billboard, titled “We Stand for Law & Order,” was constructed by piecing together elements from found photographs, using AI to refine the lighting before editing the elements into a cohesive final image. Its purpose, she said, was to not only bring awareness to President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, but also to illustrate the parallels between now and a time when racial profiling and violence were widely accepted and embraced, while the perpetrators hid behind masks…