In the days following the antisemitic attack at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead, a memorial site quickly filled with candles, stuffed toys, handwritten notes and thousands, perhaps even millions, of flowers.
Such spontaneous memorials are typically removed and their contents quietly disposed of. But Jewish artist Nina Sanadze saw a chance to immortalize the bouquets, even as their petals faded and decomposed. Before knowing precisely what she would do with them, she asked the Sydney Jewish Museum to help collect every flower from the site — more than three tons and counting — to transform into artworks commemorating Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in almost 30 years.
Even…