We Mourn Our Losses
2015
Textile banner, hand and machine sewn cotton and silk , 44 x 58 inches

From the series New Demands? (2011-2023)

Inspired by textile banners carried at a public funeral march and protest following the Triangle Factory Fire that killed 146 young, mostly Jewish and immigrant women garment workers in New York City, in 1911 . The original banners, captured in a handful of archival photographs, read "Workers Mourn Our Loss" (singular). This banner was adapted to the plural, "We Mourn Our Losses" to acknowledge a trajectory of historical and present-day losses for workers.

Exhibited as part of my solo exhibition at Spudnik Press, 2016.
Also exhibited as part of I Can't Breathe at ARC Gallery, Chicago, curated by Mary Patten and Romi Crawford.

Photo: Robert Chase Heisman
Studio assistance: Christie Carlson