Floor Installation
In You We Trust is a project created by Jen Rose and Marian Lefeld to raise awareness of human trafficking in Dallas. Over two-hundred volunteers in the Dallas community worked to create 2,000 six-inch golden coins to represent the 2,000 children sold on the streets of Dallas each year.
A collection of Bee Cups is called an Oasis. An Oasis can be installed in any landscape as a beautiful watering station for thirsty pollinators.
Bees are incredibly important to our survival because they pollinate most of our food. To help the bees, I developed Bee cups, tiny porcelain funnels that collect a few drops of rain or sprinkler water. Each one is made from hand-colored porcelain with color variations intentionally added to each batch. They are heated to over 2200 degrees Fahrenheit in a kiln using 100% solar energy. Because of this production process, they are 100% light safe and will never fade. They will not leach chemicals into the soil or water and contain ZERO plastics.
Bees are incredibly important to our survival because they pollinate most of our food. To help the bees, I developed Bee cups, tiny porcelain funnels that collect a few drops of rain or sprinkler water. Each one is made from hand-colored porcelain with color variations intentionally added to each batch.
They are heated to over 2200 degrees Fahrenheit in a kiln using 100% solar energy. Because of this production process, they are 100% light safe and will never fade. They will not leach chemicals into the soil or water and contain ZERO plastics.
This Oasis is a collection of Bee Cups based on the evening primrose wildflower.
Vinyl on wall, Dallas City Hall 2015
Bees is a collaborative installation with Richland College students at Dallas City Hall to raise awareness of the decline of honey bees from 1950-present. The vinyl image creates a bar graph documenting the disappearance of bees. Seed bombs were given to the audience to cultivate new bee habitats in Dallas.
Wall installation.
In 2017 Marian Lefeld and Jen Rose traveled to Eureka, CA to present In You We Trust at the College of the Redwoods.
College of the Redwoods workshop. Students at the college participated in the project by creating coins to represent their community. The coins made at the College of the Redwoods are added to the collection of IYWT coins.
Volunteers work in Jen Rose’s studio to create coins for In You We Trust.
This installation was inspired by Paul Cummings's work in England to create one poppy for each Brittish soldier killed in World War One. History Professor, Clive Seigle and Jen Rose used the international symbol of the poppy to represent each solider killed from Texas in WWI; 5,171 poppies in all. The installation was installed at Richland College and at the courthouse lawn in Georgetown Texas. The poppies were sold and $25,000 was raised for Puppies Behind Bars, an organization which trains service animals for wounded soldiers. For more on this project watch this 13-minute video.
In April 2016 the City of Georgetown, TX asked us to install all remaining poppies from the Richland College installation at the Williamson County Courthouse.
Community and student volunteers make poppies for Blood of Heroes.