Artist Aquil Virani’s reminder to “give your people their flowers.”

With my recent hospitalization, equal parts terrifying and illuminating, I wanted to create a reminder to “give your people their flowers.” That expression does not represent an original idea, but hey: artists are just the ones who choose which ideas are worth repeating.

I asked project participants to “imagine that a loved one just ended up in the hospital.” I then ask why we wait for bad things to happen before we “say what we need to say.” The artwork on the postcard’s front is from the 124 project.