When Fabian “Occasional Superstar” Williams learned that his mural of Colin Kaepernick was demolished last Friday, he responded by creating #Kaeperbowl.
“Because of what the mural meant to so many people, I didn’t want for the mural to end like that. I didn’t want for that to be the news cycle for the rest of the Super Bowl,” Williams said.
Initially, Williams’ public art initiative called for seven Kaepernick murals to be painted in Atlanta around the Super Bowl since that was Kaepernick’s jersey number.
“I think that he is the future of what we want to see in civil rights. Atlanta is the headquarters [for civil rights] but I feel like we’ve been looking back too much. There’s a lot of things that we can do right now to keep this movement going forward and actually achieve the dream…,” he said.
The artist’s goal has been surpassed because there are now more than eight locations to find Kaeperbowl murals throughout the city created by artists, such as Yuzly, Joe, Muhammad Yungai and C Flux Sing.
