Where Flowers Now Wilt
https://issuu.com/vcustudentmedia/docs/amendment_2022 


Where_Flowers_Now_Wilt


2020
Marcus-David Peter‘s Circle, Richmond, VA
I wanted to commemorate the passing and going of the community space Marcus-David Peter‘s Circle was after it was reclaimed in 2020 during the second wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement-- kids playing basketball with their dad, people communing + having a good time, and lastly the flowers that were planted in the garden. Using light and the flowers as a metaphor, only paritally showing the statue of Robert E. Lee and showing its shadow as a kind of illusion to it. Juxtaposing the space the cirlce was when it was reclaimed--this beautiful sapce where people could commune, eat, listen to music, learn, comapred to then, later in 2021 when the statue was removed and a fence went up, it has became a rather performative, yet fenced circle with state mandated flowers plotted there, kind of mocking what once was.☆
*Published in Amendment Art and Literary Journal 2022 + Art Award Recipient*