RIP DEVON JENSEN WALLACE.
“I used the term ‘concrete roses’ in reference to the people who have led beautiful lives against all odds, yet at the same time these concrete roses may live out their lives in what migh be deemed as unsavoury, ugly, violent, or stigmatised places. Concrete roses bloom in the hoods, the banlieues, the estate and the projects of different cities. The main thing I was thinking about with the idea of the concrete rose, is situating concrete roses in my artistic practices a way of paying homage...
It’s a way of paying homage to essentially what are my dead family, friends, neighbours and comrades who I have witnessed to live out livelihoods defined by struggle. So, I used the term ‘concrete rose’ as a metaphor, conceptually, theoretically, and artistically.”
[Extract from photo-essay zine. For sale via the Peso Bodega Store]
