Hand bent 22 and 16 gauge steel, fencing wire and weld, these brutalist roses have a long history in my artwork. The rose buds were first made for an installation in 2012 called “Ground Break/Day Break” presented at Whitdel Arts Gallery in Detroit, MI (More info can be found here: ). The roses were also used as weight to balance a oversized paper-mache version of my spine, in an exhibition titled, DIGS: Sexism in the Arts Curated by Carolyn Perotti which can be viewed here: http://andyjohanson.com/air.html