I spent the early days of the pandemic lockdown raking dead leaves and clearing flower beds in the yard of the house I was renting. No sooner had I finished this task that a new challenge presented itself: dandelions began their slow but persistent return into the garden over which I thought I'd gained control. Eventually, the days in lockdown grew and I stopped keeping up with the number of dandelions that scattered the grass; I watched the garden become covered in yellow. The dandelions were still blooming when protests against the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor arose in my town.

Made in the early days of June 2020, this small print is a meditation on flowers as strategy of protest and resistance; it is a visual synthesis of the spraypaint I watched grow across the downtown area and the spontaneous offerings of flowers that followed several evenings of protests throughout the summer. Masses of Flowers was produced in an edition of 100.

2020. Gouache and thread on Zerkall Book paper; pochoir and sewing. 10½” x 6¼”