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Nick Azzaro: Comfortably Dumb, 2020

Comfortably Dumb, 2020

Nick Azzaro

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Comfortably Dumb is an ongoing project showing lifeless figures in or near school desks throughout the community of Ypsilanti. The statues represent students who have and will graduate despite being underprepared to function in the professional world, a scenario that continues in Ypsilanti and every community that looks like it. The perpetuation of a manufactured stereotype that makes minorities, specifically black Americans, seem inferior to white Americans is and has been allowed for too long and the complacency associated equates to acceptance.