This One’s For You….

Glazed Ceramic Trophies, Installation 2021

This One’s for You… is a series of trophies paying tribute to those we’ve wanted to honor in 2020/21. Who suffered? Who gave unconditionally? Who do you want to celebrate? The public is invited to add dedications below.

This One’s for You TRUTH
This One's for You healthcare workers
This One’s for You transit workers
This One’s for You farm workers
This One’s for You mutual aid practitioners
This One’s for You Breonna, George, Elijah, and Ahmaud
This One’s for You #seeblackwomen, for showing us restorative justice
This One's for You Patrisse, Alicia, Tamika, Cat, Stacey, Stop DiscriminAsian, and all activists fighting for racial justice and voting rights
This One’s for You firefighters, rolling into danger each season
This One’s for You Mom, stuck in your apartment for a year
This One’s for You Cic, taking care of Mama without juicy hugs
This One's for You Orlando
This One's for You AnMarie, and Jewlia

This One’s for You protestors in Myanmar, and sufferers of oppression everywhere

This One’s for You, border crossers

This One’s for You, Palestine

This One’s for You everyone surviving this alone

This One’s for You…

This one's for you~ Breonna, George, Elijah, and Ahmaud
This one's for you~ BLM
This one's for you~ Mom, mostly alone during this pandemic but being tough as nails anyways
This one's for you~ Leni, stuck in this apartment with me and your mom and keeping(for the most part) a PMA
This one's for you~ K. Branan, get better man, I'm pulling for you
This one's for you~ Stan and Karen
This one's for you~ Brookie, for doing what you do
This one's for you~ PDX Resistance
This one's for you~ Nancy, for getting through all that shitty cancer treatment
This one's for you~ John, cos you're a good brother
This one's for you~ Lexa, for being inspiring and doing shit like this

-K Cascell

This One's for You West Oakland

-M Stahl

This One's for You, Mom, because you made it home, even though we only had you for a few hours before you made your final departure. See you on the other side some day...

-Anonymous

This One's for You ~ CWY, for everything you've endured in the past 2 years, and for your rigorous commitment to optimism, kindness, care, and resilience, despite all that has tested you. Forever your fan.
- Woff

This One’s for You…. Here's to you, queer veterans of the AIDS epidemic, for white-knuckling through another public health crisis, and for modeling resilience, humor, and creative risk management to keep us connected through quarantine.

-Zeph F

This One's for You Lee, for dying alone

The One's for You, the unsheltered homeless in Austin, who are getting shuffled around
-HM

This One's for You ~ born in a pandemic and knowing childhood as only this.
This One's for You ~ mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers.
This One's for You ~ lovers who don't kiss anymore because of fear that you might then infect the whole family at the same time.
This One's for You ~ immunocompromised and still isolating.
This One's for You ~ performers who still don't have a stage.
This One's for You ~ artists. Keep dreaming. Keep making. (Don't let capitalist desires define your worth and your value.)

-Anonymous

This One's for You ~ daughter, who was moved from one school to another to another
This One's for You ~ mother, who escorted your child into the psych ward
This One's for You ~ father, who cared for your two special needs children while in isolation
This One's for You ~ guidance counselor who put every parent's phone number in your cell phone
This One's for You ~ young white woman standing alone on route 1 holding a BLM sign
This One's for You ~ Chrystal Caldwell
This One's for You ~ Ledyard Girls basketball team
-anonymous

This One’s for You, Danielle Ngo and Jeremy Shaw! You put in the extra effort to deliver an impressive grant proposal. This project, if funded would eliminate the disparity in adaptation
planning along an urban waterfront. It would build community capacity to address multiple climate risks, develop equitable adaptation strategies, and position a community-based adaptation plan for federal funding. So yay!

-Anonymous

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