George Floyd 2021

4X4in, acrylic, oil, earrings, plexiglass, hand-stamped brass name plate, twisted metal easel
Manhattan bagel for scale*

On the back of each painting is a QR code that takes you to the Instagram post by FLOWER SHOP PHL!!! where you will see the original flower arrangement made. Additionally, there is a typed note accompanying each painting with the legacy of advocacy the arrangement seeks to amplify on social media:

“ONE YEAR AGO TODAY: George Floyd. It sends me back into a very specific time and place in lockdown where we were supposed to stay inside, but the anger of his brutal murder by police was boiling over. Today, my 12-year old black neighbor kiddo across the street wears a t-shirt with George’s portrait enlarged across their little frame. I took this photo in front of their fam’s front yard.

I don’t want to center my feelings about this as a white person today or any day. I do want to ask questions like: Where is the movement now? How can white folks support it? Did we just donate and drop off? If it seemed important to show up then, why wouldn’t it continue to feel important today?

I don’t want my black neighbors to become hashtags.

Don’t call the cops. Don’t just talk about stuff and enable each other in your primarily white neighborhood fb groups and call it your activism. Don’t forget that what happened last year isn’t still happening, and that murder by police happened here in West Philly just a few months later to #walterwallace.

What are you doing to actually support black lives?”

20% of sales donated to FLOWER SHOP PHL!!!