Really Rooting for Everything That Is Yes!, 2026

REALLY ROOTING FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS YES!, CYANOTYPE CHEER FLAGS FOR THE ART PARADE at LACMA — Near the end of 2024, with buckets of cyanotype chemistry already sitting in my studio for an ongoing body of work, I set about making cheer flags for my friends who were running races, tossing flags cut from fabric scraps in to sensitize whenever I had extra chemistry. You can’t (yourself) run around cheering for people with a paperboard sign! And cheering was in order: preparing for a marathon, for example, takes hundreds of hours of preparation for a performance that is over in a couple of hours. For shorter track races, the same hundreds of hours of preparation go into a performance that is over in less than a minute.  In 2025, these started feeling more urgent: the people of LA needed cheering for the good things more than ever, both individually and collectively.  And then we needed, too, signs to carry to protests. The flags progressed. Early studies for and iterations of the flags I made for The Art Parade began in the first weeks of June 2025 as I realized that cheering and protesting were correlated —and vital —practices of resistance, and acts of art. I think of this project as cheer flags for our city.

The parade smocks use the same materials as the large scale banners: canvas, grommets, and neon paracord. Although each is created from a single piece of canvas, smocks are four-sided, with unique prints on each face.