Poster by Keya Tama. Photo by Luna Park.

For most of this year, we’ve been focused on work that has an explicit political message attached. It’s been a minute since we just put up something beautiful because it’s beautiful. And why not? This work from Keya Tama is a slight correction in that direction. A figuring offering a simple flower to New York City.

Keya explained to us, “All over the world and before recorded history the flower has manifested as a symbol of balance, love and the cycle of life. It is important to protect this symbol and continue its symbolic value especially when its co-opted by advertisers who drown out its significant role in cross-cultural iconography. Art in Ad Places acts as an inherently necessary counterbalance to the growing presence of advertising over art in public spaces.”

So (for now), just a bit uptown of advertising barrage that is Time Square… A flower.