FlowerPower · 2014
The "FlowerPower" series explores the shift in the way a specific combination of iconographic archetypes – the weapon (the handgun, and even more specifically - those used by the protagonist in the many permutations of Ian Fleming's 'James Bond - 007' creation), and the flower (as a symbol of peace) was perceived in our collective consciousness over a decade. Between the late 1950s and the end of the 1960s, the perception of these archetypes was completely inverted – before reverting violently to type with the Kent State massacre in 1970.
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