Attributed to William Pope, American, born 1955, oil painting on board, The People You Love Become Ghosts Inside of You and Like This You Keep Them Alive. Signed upper left. Framed. William Pope is known for Installations, street performance. A professor of theater and rhetoric at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, William Pope is an African American artist whose installations and performances challenge stereotypes about black male identity. He is known for his Crawl projects, in which he crawls through city streets including ones in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Budapest, Hungary. One of a kind artwork.