2025

I’M TRYING TO TELL YOU SOMETHING

An Archival Protest of Femicide

One of the most powerful pieces in the show is Put A Pin In It, 2025. A large wall installation, featuring 4,970 dried gomphrena flowers (chosen for their ability to flourish in bleak conditions and their history as a symbol of immortality, as well as US settlers’ penchant for the flowers in the Colonial Period) in multiple shades of dark red and pink, illustrate the documented number of women who were murdered in 2021.

The massive work (84 x 84 x 5 inches) is abstract in form. The individual blossoms appear to gather into an amorphous arrangement which appears solid, with a few of the blooms lingering outside the dominant, almost cartographic form as if they are islands falling away from the mainland—or perhaps are racing to unite. The work is exquisite in its beauty, the delicate appearance of the flowers repudiating the horror they symbolize.

- Nicole Bearden, Evergreen Echo