Cyndy Barbone
Cyndy Barbone
“A rose is a rose is a rose” (Gertrude Stein), 2020
Woven cotton and embroidery
88 x 79.5 inches
(5 individual panels hung together)
NFS
"This spring, as COVID-19 fatalities in New York rose in unfathomable numbers, I wanted to commemorate those lost to the pandemic and also comment on what the number 32,350 (the death toll in New York state when I started) looks like in visual form. This is a bar graph of sorts: each length of fabric contains a count of woven roses based on New York state fatality rates. For March, when the first deaths were reported, the woven roses are large. I document half of the month on one length of fabric. As daily deaths increase, the roses become progressively smaller, and less days are able to fit on each panel."