正如计划的3:30，就像计划，帕特里夏诗人在旧金山市政厅的盛大楼梯上。包覆黑色，包括a hood and mask that covered her nose and mouth, she climbed past brides in their wedding gowns. Once at the top, she knelt down to retrieve a long black garment from a bag and began to unfurl it down the steps, revealing an embroidered letter to her father, “a cop in the force.”

在透气前甚至可以展开“斗篷”，因为她称之为“艺术行动”，建筑的守卫突破，最终总计八年。建筑经理Rob Reiter拒绝评论这个故事，将纪事称为城市管理员办公室。

“The interior of City Hall, including the Grand Staircase, is not a public forum like the sidewalk in front of City Hall,” explained the City Administrator’s Office in a statement, “and any unauthorized and unscheduled performance inside the building is prohibited to allow maximum access to public spaces for members of the public.”

During the3月1日星期二之间的腹泻和建筑管理之间紧张的脱位，两名守卫阻止了其他访客攀登了这些步骤。

Eventually, Diart was allowed to silently display her cape — as she has, by her estimate, in nearly 30 police stations, city facilities and museums throughout the country — but for just 10 minutes.

大约十几个环绕诗型的小圈子试图阅读这封信，而婚礼派对从远处看。但演示如此简短，遇到现场的任何人都没有机会学习“斗篷”是什么，更不用说深刻地思考它。

“你想勒死妈妈一次”,服装阅读s, detailing a childhood defined by terror and violence, including a molestation. Black friends were “forbidden,” it goes on. “While patrolling the streets, you kept a second gun with you to plant on any suspect as a way to cover up your wrongdoing.”

它的结论是：“我不再是我携带这些故事。”

在10分钟内，尿道尖锐的眼睛接触了她的每一个旁观者，好像要说，“你看到了这一点，我看到了你。”

然后，当她的时间起了，她将她的斗篷重折叠到外面前面。

“I feel angry,” she said, dabbing away tears. “I felt trapped by that situation and not really seen by the manager. It was like a token. It’s a public space; it’s not a public space for weddings only.”

“斗篷”不是腹泻的第一个概念艺术项目。旧金山的视觉艺术家，表演者和作家经常在公共广场工作。在2004年的一件中，“我可以触动你一会儿，”她站在蒙哥马利和山丘街上的商务套装，并询问路人的标题问题，希望引起“防腐”美国人如何，我们如何恐惧甚至是手臂的无害意外刷子。

Diart was born in France but grew up in Baltimore, where her dad worked on the force. She got the idea for “The Cape” after seeing the 2020 video of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd’s neck.

“I thought about my dad and how he didn’t have a lot of empathy,” she said. “Then I went to a George Floyd kneel-in here at Civic Center, and there was a helicopter in the sky. It’s just weird that we’re watched from above. This image came to me of a cape with all the names of the people that had been killed by police.”

In her first mental picture, the names would be so big they could be seen from the sky. “Then I thought, I can’t be the person wearing that cape. It should be someone who’s African American.”

Then the letter came to her — something personal, that could come only from her. She had never done embroidery before. It took her six months to construct “The Cape.”

Nowhere on “The Cape” or on her网站does Diart state her father’s name. Asked if he’s still alive, she said, “I don’t know.” Her mother, Yvette Diart of Stafford, Va., confirmed with The Chronicle everything “The Cape” claims, adding that she last saw her daughter’s father in the 1980s.

但是“斗篷”的目的不是专门为诗厌的父亲出去。“这仍然是继续，”她说她记录了什么。“我在裹尸布，我可以成为任何人。”

腹泻已经展示了她在巴尔的摩家乡的“开普”，并在萨克拉门托，瓦莱乔，圣罗莎，奥克兰和多个旧金山景点（虽然周二是她第一次在市政厅）。它还在纽约，明尼阿波利斯和西雅图等城市旅行。诗厌表示，这件作品引发了一系列响应，包括来自费城警察的一个响应，他告诉她他是如何搬家的。

“I think art with a message is just mere propaganda,” she said. “For me the best kind of art is open. I didn’t go out with an agenda on this. I’m not trying to preach anything.”

有时，侨恩感觉好像她在信中的结论中所写的那样 - 不再承担她自己的故事的负担。

“这是一部分的宣泄，但我不知道有没有'过度的人，”“她说。“悲伤是出现的，然后消退。这是周期性的。这不是你可以控制的东西。“

“斗篷”：阅读完整信并了解未来的显示，访问thecape.substack.com。