Plymouth Magazine-Summer26-DIGITAL - Flipbook - Page 3
About the Cover
Art by Heidi Schoeneck, written by Luke Stringer
Heidi Schoeneck’s painting of Renée Nicole Macklin Goode
captures the moment before the 37-year-old woman was
shot and killed by United States Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) officer Jonathan Ross on January 7, 2026.
In her painting, Schoeneck translates the now notorious body
cam footage of the event into an image in conversation with
the work of mid-century pop artist Roy Lichtenstein. Known
for this large-scale works that painstakingly re-created printed
cartoon panel-style illustration in paint, Lichtenstein, and
now Schoeneck, draw our attention to the ways images are
reproduced, captured, flattened, commodified, regardless of
their subject matter. In Schoneck’s painting of Goode, which
includes her final words to Ross, “I’m not mad at you,” I see
Schoeneck drawing her viewers’ attention to the way we as
witnesses are implicated in the tragedy of Goode’s death, where
violent attacks on immigrant communities around the country
become spectacle; where atrocity becomes just another panel in
the daily news.
Heidi Schoeneck is a new member as
of May 17. She is a paraprofessional at
Perkins Elementary School, but is finally
emerging as an artist after being in
“incubation” for years. She’s passionate
about social justice especially what has
been going on currently and in her home
state of Minnesota.
Plymouth Magazine 3
