All Hands On Deck
Created during the Ferguson uprising, All Hands On Deck captured the hands of people who shaped and upheld the movement. These prints were wheat-pasted onto boarded-up businesses of W. Florissant, a street of significant protest. The project in itself was a protest to change the physical space of the street as the boarded buildings created a narrative of destruction before anything had even happened which fed into the media’s biased portrayal of the protesters. It was a way to weaponize art to create a counternarrative centered on the unity and love I saw every time I went out to protest. It sought to raise the morale of the protest community to continue the fight.
The installation was tweeted by Bansky as “the most powerful street art in the world” in that moment and was later recognized as one of “The 100 Works of Art That Defined the Decade” by Artnet critic Ben Davis.