Flora Wilds

~current stock, including some fresh ones~ large bumper stickers are $12 smaller ones range from $6-$10 +$2 shipping to anywhere (dm me to shop!) ⭐️final slide: all 5 for $40⭐️ Edit: thanks to one super enthusiastic person you can now collect all 15 (first image) for $130! *all text used is original to me and much of it is featured directly in work I’ve made / concepts I’ve been circling / my archive of TEXTile sculptures :) thank you!!

sooooo stoked to have new work at LA @printedmatter_artbookfairs at @artcenteredu with @undertow_editions ( huge thank you to @___nathans ) ~ feels like quite a special exclamation mark on my one year in Los Angleles 🌞 I’ll be tabling sunday - booth G11 (a selection of stickers also present as that is my latest form of Printed Matter) I HAVE BEEN MANY PEOPLE BUT I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DESIRE (2026), part of a vintage American quilt c. 1940, letters hand cut from a previously worn felted hunting shirt, “you are here” galaxy shirt section c. 1980, original text, available via @undertow_editions 🖇️

~process post~ 𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙞 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 shot by @torihilshey 💓 (6 ft. x 6 ft. x 12 ft., installed in the mercy gallery at loomis chaffee school, this past fall) 💓 what 2023 has looked like for me, sculpture wise: a year long process of: collecting materials (5 quilts c. 1910 - 1970 sourced from eBay + 31 previously worn “girls” bikini tops c. 2000 - 2015 sourced from thrift stores in San Diego), hand sewing restoration of the quilts - keeping to the original maker’s design and palette, machine sewing collaging the the 5 quilts into a single 18 ft. long piece, hanging the 18 ft. long piece in the round for the first time (light weight metal modular hoops velcro in to serve as internal skeleton support) as to begin the trigonometry trials and trepidations necessary to get the angle in the round, cutting the angle (which when laid flat on the floor looks like cutting a wave through the middle of the quilts), sewing velcro into the top and middle edges of the two halves so that it can fix onto 3 skeleton hoops, rolling the piece onto the 3 metal hoops at once (in order for it to hang properly), installing four leader lines that connect the two quilt halves and will help maintain the center angle, then a period of many adjustments, darts, and fixes to get it to hang right / look good from every vantage point, thennn the bikini tensions and connections are safety pinned in place (a few days process of negotiation on site), these tensions and connections are then hand sewn in place, and the biggest piece I’ve ever gotten to make is made!!! thank you to my mom for being my second pair of studio hands/helping me conceive of the technical aspects of how to wrangle this, thank you to @davborski and john from the @thewadsworth + @realartways for the install support, thank you to @christian.ryan_99 at @loomischaffeevisualarts for the opportunity to scale up in a way I don’t have access to in NYC, thank you to @hkelyasin for sharing space with me, thank you to @lvmclaughlin for writing our exhibition essay, thank you to @torihilshey for image documentation, thank you to everyone who made the trek to see this and other works in “accumulated proximities”

some writing, some images, some objects. some writing inspired by images of objects. you know the drill 🤍

Los Angeles! I’ll be at Queer Mall hosted by @feeling__space tomorrow (sun 5/3) - I’ll have a collection of 6 smaller wall pieces (accessibly priced) + lots of stickers (duh) + maybe even a few backwards DESIRE shirts ~ would love to see you there / dm me to snag a small piece early 🖇️🌞❤️

new! feat. the very last (!) sections of these three special vintage quilts (been working with them all since 2020 - see stories rn for lineage) - restored and collaged + navy blue felt letters cut from a hunting shirt, 30 in. x 38 in. (available as the moon is full!) xoxo

hello to new people who have found me via my latest offering which started out as a joke and has morphed into something real (stickers ! Thank you!! Jokes are REAL too!)! wanted to give you a little intro :) my name is Flora Wilds, I’m a conceptual artist largely working with no new materials, and I’m from and currently live in So Cal (although spent much of the last decade in NYC). here is a selection of work that spans the past 8 years or so (since grad school at SFAI and beyond). I make textile dominant sculptures and installations (and sometimes performance work) whenever I have the time/space/support to do so, and to fund that work I make smaller limited edition collections of objects, text-based series, conceptual garments, and custom commission work (see “NOTHING HELD BACK”!). I also support my work with my Astrology for Artists practice: I’ve studied ancient Hellenistic astrology for almost a decade, and tie in my knowledge of art/art history, critical theory, philosophy and poetry, to parse how every house + planet in your natal chart relates to your life as a maker. I love collaborating with other artists and writers, I love teaching (I guest lecture / do workshops whenever I can), and I love working! and hope my work is a vehicle for criticality, humor, and conversation surrounding the mundane materials of our lives. I’m particularly interested in investigating notions of “the hand made” (whose hands? where? at what pace?), pop-culturally influenced expressions of femininity in early 2000s, and the ways in which capitalist realism (yes I’m a mark fisher head) dictates language in commodity spaces. My process is often informed by the act of deconstruction, reconstruction, and glitch, as well as shopping, image making, and writing. *All of this* is made possible by consistent and generous support from my incredible friends and family (my mom is my studio assistant!! my dad said yeah go be an artist - he is one too), AND by over a decade of posting my work/ideas here on Instagram, my most consistent notebook/at times the only site I had to share work. PS: Happy Earth DAY : everything we need to make with already exists in the world!

new batch o stickers!! / shop irl at @looselosangeles TODAY!it’s a party

All Of The Ways In Which Spring! Has! Sprung! + *new* conceptual garment / custom commission option: YOUR HANDS / OVER TIME (no new materials) button down shirt 🤍 (the one pictured here has sold, but I can make you one like it) + happy Venus in Taurus, hope you’re finding moments of LUSH 🌸🌸🌸

before the sticker there was the sculpture :) YOU CAN MAINTAIN A CONSTANT STATE OF LONGING IF YOU TRY (2025), previously worn graphic t shirts, vintage american quilt, original text. ~ materials collected over the course of 2 years: combing thrift stores + collecting the damaged shirts from merch sellers in NYC and LA 🖇️ DON’T HONK AT ME I’M TRYING TO MAINTAIN A CONSTANT STATE OF LONGING (2026), 10 in x 3 in limited edition vinyl bumper sticker (a few left!)

NYC: I’ll be at @moisturizer.gallery (279 broome st.) from noon to 5pm on Saturday :) stop by to see my bikini quilt diptych in the window / say hi before I jet back to so cal~ what a classically good\hard NYC month it has been - thanks for all the magic u beautiful nasty stressful high octane gut wrenching perspective altering town!!! I root for you I love you, you you you you 👹💋🔄

sticker restock* ~ dm me to shop! big bumpers are $12, “I ❤️ the pace of the process” are $10, smaller ones are $8. + $2 shipping to US and Canada (the last two: “honk/longing” and ~original desire~ are available in pink and blue) *all text used is original to me and much of it is featured directly in work I’ve made / concepts I’ve been circling / my archive of TEXTile sculptures :)