In an effort to be radically honest and in love all at once, I entitled my piece, which was really just an addendum to Ebony Patterson’s delicious piece in the background, Amor Que Duele. Love that aches, hurts, is wounded, in pain. Love and pain, pain and love. To be in love with this community, the Beloved Community, and to ache at it’s wounds. I’m being vague.

The Indiana Repertory Theater hosted a special production of Frida Kahlo’s life and invited Frida’s Flowers to partner. The play, entitled Frida… A Self Portrait, was a one-woman, multi-character show depicting each life stage of Frida Kahlo. Her endurance, pain, grief, joy, agony, creative agency, genius, kindness, perspective, and love captivated me. I created several pieces for the show and rotated them each week of the performance during March & April.

DECOLONIZED FUNK. It means what we’re designing is going to challenge and rip our assumptions to shreds until we’re completely honest, completely in awe of our own innate capacity to create, and designing from a place of resonance rather than scarcity or comparison. Design days are an opportunity to grow, learn, and get into your own body while you work with your hands to create floral art. Design days are for the brave, bold, the ones who are willing to take a risk without much direction other than their own intuition, which is actually the most direction you could have…

LOVING DAY 2024

CELEBRATING LIFE AT THE TABLE

SPORTS AND FLOWERS as an art are not commonly integrated… which is why it’s absolutely baller to design floral art with soccer balls and basketballs as vases.

THINGS CAN GO TOGETHER THAT DO NOT NORMALLY GO TOGETHER BECAUSE OF SOCIETAL NORMS… yes, this is a commentary and challenge to expand our perspectives around what’s possible for our communities.