Baltimore artist Reed Bmore unveiled a memorial for Elijah McClain near the Colorado State Capitol over Thanksgiving weekend, showing McClain hang above the city while playing the violin with a cat by his side.

The wire piece, called “The Violinist” by Bmore on Instagram, hangs in the intersection of Sherman Street and East 18th Avenue.

“We need to look inward and stop bickering before this world turns itself inside out,” Bmore said in the post. “(Expletive) Crooked cops. (Expletive) this system. (Expletive) the imbalance. Thankful to be alive and hardy enough to say and do something about it.”

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McClain, a young Black man, was 23 years old when he was killed in Aurora after being placed in a chokehold by police and sedated by fire rescue paramedics on Aug. 24, 2019.

Though McClain was unarmed and had committed no crime, a passerby called 911 to report him as “suspicious” while he walked home from a convenience store.

McClain was a massage therapist and self-taught violin and guitar player. He often played the violin for stray cats to help soothe them, which inspired Bmore’s memorial.

Bmore and two friends have been camping around the country for weeks as they travel from Baltimore to California, displaying Bmore’s artwork. The team stopped in Denver for three days last week when he hung the piece.

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“This one just hit personally as well as it did with a lot of people,” Bmore said. “It is our job (as artists) to make those connections with people and really bring the hard-hitting conflicts to the forefront so that people will talk about it.”

McClain’s death has inspired countless national and statewide protests against police brutality, with the protests often occurring in front of the capitol building where the piece is hung.

The piece has quickly received national media coverage and social media attention.

One post of the artwork by Kali Fajardo-Anstine has garnered nearly 150,000 likes, describing the piece as bringing Fajardo-Anstine “to tears.”

Moved to tears by this piece by Reed Bmore. Elijah McClain above Denver with his violin and kitty. Rest beautiful soul. pic.twitter.com/S5Xrqba5zM

— Kali Fajardo-Anstine (@KaliMaFaja) November 29, 2020