Elijah McClain

By Helen Lesnick

A pastel portrait of Elijah McClain, February 25, 1996 - August 30, 2019. Elijah was a sweet soul who was violently killed during a police encounter in Aurora, Colorado. when I was creating this piece, the line from "American Skin" by Bruce Springsteen kept running through my head, "You can get killed just for living in your American skin..."