This project was conceived and completed in collaboration with Crista Ann Ames (link)

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To whom it may concern:

#Metoo, #Blacklivesmatter, Water Protectors, “Water Is Life,”  Pride, #Yesallwomen, #Takeaknee, “The Future Is Female,” “Time’s Up,” “People Before Profit,” “No One Is Illegal,” “Native Lives Matter,” “Disabled Lives Matter,” “Hands Up Don’t Shoot,” “Refugees Welcome,” “Coexist,” “Silence = Death,” “We Can Do It,” “Stand With Standing Rock,” “Not Gay As In Happy: Queer As In F*Ck You,” “Stop Global Warming,” “There Is No Planet B,” #whyIstayed, “Love Wins,” “Justice For Palestine,” “Say Her Name,” “Resist,” “Water Is Life,” “Protect Kids, Not Guns,” “Enough”, “Never Again,”  “Save Our Winters,” #Bringbackourgirls, “Actions Not Prayers,” “Love Makes A Family,” “Books Not Guns,” “Love Is Love,” “And Yet, She Persisted,” “Disabled And Proud,” “The Future Is Accessible,” “Piss On Pity,” “System Change, Not Climate Change,” “One Earth, One Chance,” “Science Not Silence,” “Build Bridges, Not Walls,” “Power to the People” “Hope,” .   .  .

These are our words
And they have also become our things.

T-shirts, hats, stickers, flags, wristbands, posters, fliers, buttons, tote bags, banners  .  .  .

whether mass-produced or hand-knitted/ painted/ printed .  .  .
what becomes of them?

Do they pile up? Dust over?
Do they fill trash cans and landfills?

Do they lose meaning as they amass, becoming only noise? Only stuff?

Or, perhaps, do they linger, dormant? 
Can we imagine them as seeds to a legacy?
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In this collaborative exhibition, Crista Ann Ames and I explore this last possibility. By housing the material detritus of contemporary activism in seed pods made of ceramic—evoking the qualities of timelessness and decay inherent to “earth”—we visualize the most hopeful telling of a complex story about values, activism, identity, liberalism, and consumerism.

This piece was installed at “The General Public” Garmentory/Gallery in Missoula, MT, for the September First Friday Art-walk in 2019.