For a feature in New Suns Magazine, I was tasked with making work about labor and documenting the process. The labor movement is one of my deepest wells for inspiration, and for this piece I used “A Garland for May Day” by Walter Crane as my inspiration. The image depicts a woman in a winged helmet presenting a garland of Socialist ideals. One of the ribbons on the garland reads, “A Commonwealth when wealth is common.” In our Commonwealth of Kentucky, we see daily examples of how wealth is not a common experience. Bourbon barons and a gerrymandered government, plus lingering facets of Jim Crow and redlining means that so few have so much, and so many don’t have enough. I wanted to paint this phrase alone, to give breathing room to the concept, “A Commonwealth when wealth is common.” The motif of bread and roses is a cornerstone to pro-labor graphics, and I used them to fill out the rest of the layout.