Crystalle Lacouture
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.

