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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Crystalle Lacouture, Half Mast, 52 Weeks in 2025 (Somebody's Baby), 2026

Crystalle Lacouture

Half Mast, 52 Weeks in 2025 (Somebody's Baby), 2026
52 Gouache and colored pencil drawings on NRA Air Pistol targets
77 x 58 3/4 inches frame
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Half Mast, 52 Weeks (Somebody’s Baby) is Lacouture’s fourth large-scale monument to America’s unwaning epidemic of gun violence. A compilation of 52 drawings -- each 8 x 7 inches --...
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Half Mast, 52 Weeks (Somebody’s Baby) is Lacouture’s fourth large-scale monument to America’s unwaning epidemic of gun violence. A compilation of 52 drawings -- each 8 x 7 inches -- mounted to suggest a flag at half mast, the support for each drawing is a small NRA pistol target sheet. Each sheet is drawn with white flowers and smaller yellow flowers. Most of the sheets read like a bouquet, the flowers abundant. The 52 sheets each represent weekly tallies of children in America killed by gun violence in 2025: each white flower represents a teenager, and each yellow flower represents a younger child. The artist asks the viewer to consider a translation from an abstract statistic, to a mapped symbol, into the recognition of a young life lost.


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