
Rise Above Flower
2022
'Rise Above Flower' represents a tender and politically charged counterpoint within Shepard Fairey's practice, wedding his revolutionary graphic language to one of nature's most universal symbols of beauty and resilience. Executed in mixed media — stencil, silkscreen, and collage on a four-part modular wood panel — the work deploys Fairey's layered visual system to build a composition that feels simultaneously like a protest banner and a devotional image. The flower motif has long served as a pacifist symbol, and here Fairey charges it with the confrontational energy of his OBEY iconography, creating a visual argument that beauty and defiance are not opposites. The modular format reinforces the democratic spirit of street art — the work can be installed across different surfaces and scales, maintaining its public accessibility while occupying gallery walls. It is one of the more hopeful works in the Triple Trouble collection, proposing elevation through natural grace rather than institutional power.
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- Mixed media (stencil, silkscreen and collage) on wood (four parts modular)
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