"My Life Matters" (mural of an African American boy titled, Miles) by the artist and muralist LMNOPI (Addition 8) 2023-0102, After 2014

Addition 8 of MSS 16758,The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a signed broadside print (11 X 8.5 inches) titled "My Life Matters" by the artist and muralist LMNOPI.

The signed print based on muralist LMNOPI's wheat-pasted street art, is originally produced in response to the Ferguson protests. Artist LMNOPI writes: "This painting was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement which... originated in Ferguson, Missouri last year in response to the police murder of Mike Brown. I have been doing a series of street paste ups around this movement."

LMNOPI found this image of a young protestor online, eventually identifying the child as a boy named Myles. The image of Myles warily clutching his protest sign (#DontShoot #Ferguson #YourLifeMatters), pasted up on the door of an a condemned factory in Bedford-Stuyvesant, became part of the community: "The wheatpaste of Myles was much loved by local residents. Often I would observe people taking photos of it on their way to work. I saw many people post it on Instagram. It even survived a local graffiti bomb squad who came through last winter during a snowstorm. They tagged up the entire wall, but did not touch Myles."

Source from LMNOPI's website: lmnopi.com/my-life-matters.