DOWNTOWN — Wondering what that #endgunviolence banner in the sky over the Chicago lakefront was over the weekend?
It was the work of Australian artist CJ Hendry, who also had airplane banners flying over Orlando, and New York this weekend.
In Chicago, the banner was captured by a Getty photographer taking photos at the lakefront's LakeShake country music festival.
Hendry told the Guardian that the banners, which featured a drawing of a bloody T-shirt in the shape of a gun, were prompted by the mass murder in a gay nightclub in Orlando earlier this month.
"I wanted to create something that inspired the possibility for change, to help in some small way to end gun violence in the United States," the artist told the paper.
The Guardian said the artist used a T-shirt in the design in order to "universalize gun victims."
"No matter race, gender, sex or culture, we all wear T-shirts," she said.
Hendry, in her late 20s, has drawn interest from art critics and collectors. A profile on stylecaster.com called her an "artist on the rise." She quit college in 2013, where she majored in accounting and finance, to do art.
Among her collectors is Kanye West, who bought a piece she did putting his face on a $100 bill.
NYC, Orlando and Chicago: look up! Artist @cj_hendry_live's banner is soaring today #EndGunViolence 📷: @janksmarc pic.twitter.com/51HfHVB6uX
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) June 18, 2016
Watch Hendry work below:
