#paul harfleet

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The Pansy Project In NYC

For the past 15 years, Paul Harfleet of The Pansy Project plants pansies at sites of homophobia. Currently visiting New York from London, he’s been planting at selected sites throughout the city.

This flower was planted at the historic Stonewall Inn.

More photos: The Pansy Project, Street Art, Queer Street Art

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The Pansy Project In NYC

For the past 15 years, Paul Harfleet of The Pansy Project plants pansies at sites of homophobia. Currently visiting New York from London, he’s been planting at selected sites throughout the city.

This flower was planted at the historic Stonewall Inn.

More photos: The Pansy Project, Street Art, Queer Street Art

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The Artist Who Plants Pansies At The Sites Of Anti-LGBTQ Abuse

Paul Harfleet hoped the need for The Pansy Project would fade with time. He's still memorializing the hate 16 years on.

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Paul Harfleet of The Pansy Project For Art In Ad Places

This is a really important piece by Paul Harfleet of The Pansy Project, and I'm very proud to have it be part of this series I've curated for Art in Ad Places. Please read Paul's statement about The Pansy Project and this particular piece:

“I have been running my ongoing artwork; The Pansy Project, for almost fifteen years, I plant pansies at sites of homophobia and transphobia around the world. I take a photograph and add the image with the title that quotes the abuse to my website: www.thepansyproject.com

For Art in Ad Places I have quoted part of a page on Wikipedia; ‘History of violence against LGBT people in the United States’. In a font size just on the brink of readable I have relocated this information in virtual space and brought it to the street. The list is intentionally difficult to read, practically and emotionally and highlights the impossible challenge of capturing every hate crime our LGBTQ+ community experiences on a daily basis. The image of a pansy planted in Washington D.C. commemorates the life of black trans woman, Tyli’a ‘Nana Boo’ Mack, who was stabbed to death in 2009. Her murder does not ‘make the list’ and emphasises the challenge of any full representation of hate crimes against us. The ‘History of violence against LGBT people in the United States’ covers the fifty years since the Stonewall Riots, a culturally significant beginning to the gay rights movement, half a century later the fight against homophobia and transphobia continues.”

Thank you RJ Rushmore and Katherine ‘Luna Park’ Lorimer helping me make space for queer artists whose work addresses the history and various issues the LGBTQ+ community face.

More to come!

More photos: Art in Ad Places, Queer Street Art, Ad Takeover

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Paul Harfleet: The Pansy Project

Paul Harfleet: The Pansy Project

[dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”]A[/dropcap]rt is meant to be known, to be seen, to be remembered. Paul Harfleet’s Pansy Project is a subtle way of remembering the violent acts of the past and recontextualising them as acts of beauty.

It’s hard to define Harfleet’s practice exactly. His methodology around The Pansy Projectis to plant pansies at sites of homophobic abuse generally…

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Paul Harfleet and his "Pansy Project" against Homophobia.

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The Pansy Project

Artist Paul Harfleet plants pansies at the site of homophobic abuse. Each location is photographed and named after the abuse received. The Pansy Project has featured in festivals and exhibitions around the world and won a Gold Medal at the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show 2010.

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