boards above hate

My heart has been break­ing and I haven’t known how to han­dle it.

It’s 20 frig­gin 20 and we’re still bat­tling with hu­man be­ings that have a prob­lem with the col­or of a person’s skin and a na­tion that con­tin­ues to tear us apart.

And in all this, I let my­self get dis­cour­aged by those that don’t see a prob­lem with po­lice bru­tal­i­ty against blacks and racism that is still hap­pen­ing.

I had to find a way to shift into the mes­sage of what is be­ing cre­at­ed in this very moment.

I came to the point that it’s okay to sit in this pain. I need­ed to watch the doc­u­men­taries that make me un­com­fort­able. I need­ed to have the un­com­fort­able con­ver­sa­tions with others.

Thanks to the sup­port of my sis­ter, I was able to find motivation.

In ear­ly June – in down­town Sacra­men­to – we did a thing thanks to @boardsforchange and put our mes­sages out to the community.

 

This is the Google street view just be­fore we start­ed.

 

We end­ed up with space on ei­ther side of the iconic
“EVERY DAY
IS YOUR CHANCE …”
mes­sage of flom­mist Alex Tru­jil­lo.

 

 

 

“Ab­solute­ly gut­ted, lit·er·al·ly. But …☝🏽ab­solute­ly GRATE­FUL to have ex­pe­ri­enced and in­flu­enced, than not. 😊 The EVERY DAY sign rode for al­most 10 years in this lo­ca­tion and the build­ing has now been demo’d. As the city em­barks change at these times, so do we. WE, are just get­ting started …”
—Alex

 

 

All was on 15th be­tween J & K and it’s al­ready been tak­en down 😕.

 

Art is of­ten tem­po­rary. And not every piece will sur­vive, but ideas can last a lot longer.

I hope we can find a way to rise above the hate, the anger, the pain and learn to love one an­oth­er, no mat­ter the col­or of your skin.

 

—danielle steers

Flom­mist Danielle Steers is search­ing for her hap­py place in life and has found it right be­tween pho­tog­ra­phy and de­sign. Copy­right © 2020 Danielle Steers. Con De­struc­tion fo­tos swiped from with thanks.

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