Following the 2015 mass shooting at “Mother” Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Zoe Mulford wrote an evocative song about the shooting and President Barak Obama spontaneously singing “Amazing Grace” during the memorial service.
Joan Baez included it in what is reported to be her final album “Whistle Down the Wind” released in March 2018. Artist Jeff Scher used watercolor and animation to capture the moment and emotions visually. Scher said, “I used watercolor and pastel because they have the most emotion of any mediums. I wanted the scenes to feel like they were blooming from the white of the paper, like a photograph in a developer or a memory emerging from a cloud. I wanted it to feel as if the scenes were being remembered… which is really the grand goal of the song.”
Here is Zoe Mulford performing her song live at a church in Pennsylvania.