THE POST-PANDEMIC FLOWER FIELD
2021
Digital photography
The WHO estimated that, between 2020 and 2021, the pandemic was directly or indirectly associated with approximately 14.9 million excess deaths worldwide.
By the spring of 2021, people were urgently imagining, performing, and sustaining the appearance of recovery. What the flower field presents may not be the reality of a pandemic that had ended, but an illusion of recovery arriving before its time.
14,900,000 gone
And still, amid so much death, spring came into bloom.