The leaders of the community proposal and rally, reverends from Brooklyn, achieved significant attention for their plan and support from elected officials, in
part because their critique of de Blasio's housing program touched the core
tension of what some see as a solid, fairly moderate approach, but others call too timid to address the affordability crisis
facing the city and its residents and, in some cases, a catalyst of detrimental gentrification.
Other works featured in LIVESupport include «Church State,» a two -
part sculpture comprised of ink - covered church pews mounted on wheels; «Ambulascope,» a downward
facing telescope supported by a seven - foot tower of walking canes, which are marked with ink and adorned with Magnetic Resonance Images (MRIs) of the spinal column; «Riot Gates,» a series of large - scale X-Ray images of the human skull mounted on security gates and surrounded by a border of ink - covered shoe tips, objects often used by the artist as tenuous representation of the body; «Role Play Drawings» a series of found black and white cards from the 1960s used for teaching young children, which Ward has altered using ink to mark out the key elements and reshape the narrative, which leaves the viewer to interpret the remaining psychological
tension; and «Father and Sons,» a video filmed at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network House of Justice, which comments on the anxiety and complex dialogue that African - American police officers are often
faced with when dealing with young African - American teenagers.