Ben Wildflower

@benwildflower.com

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Philadelphian. Printmaking, bicycles, childrearing, farting around. Destroy what destroys you. The world is still a beautiful place.

A bowl of poutine. It’s proper poutine, not some bullshit American craft beer bar bullshit with beef gravy and bacon and shredded cheddar. This is gravy mix from Bulk Barn (somehow vegetarian), fries, and proper cheese curds.
Short recording from handlebar-mounted phone of biking through an open fire hydrant spraying water in an arc across the street
An open book bookmarked with a mechanical pencil sitting on a dive bar countertop in front of the drink of the people of Philadelphia— a special— which is just cheap whiskey and cheap beer.
Two road bikes in the basket of an Urban Arrow cargo bike.
Close-up of linocut print. Prisoners gather around Jesus as he leads them out of hell’s earthly manifestation.
Linocut print of a variation on the Anastasis icon. Instead of the gates of Hades under Christ’s feet it’s the signage from an ICE concentration camp. Adam and Eve and the saints are depicted as Jesus’ fellow inmates. The torn-asunder cliffs of Hell are here shown as the barbed wire and chain link of the modern carceral punishment system.
I’m back on my bullshit. I’m putting stickers on top of stickers. Now it says “CA$H PAID 4 DIABETIC HORSES uglyhorses.com” It’s so stupid it’s funny.
A sign that says “JUNK CARS WANTED” but a sticker reading “HORSES” has been placed over the word “CARS.” Junk horses wanted. UGLYHORSES.com
A sign reading “We pay cash for diabetic test strips” but a sticker reading “HORSES” has been placed atop the words “test strips” so now it reads “We pay cash for Diabetic HORSES. uglyhorses.com”
Text message reading “I miss when known carcinogens were pedaled by festive humpless bipedal camels.”
An Osprey soars in blue skies above deciduous trees turning autumnal hues
Classic lugged steel bicycle (it’s a 1994 Bridgestone RB-T but you’d probably not guess it right away as it has been repainted a glossy forest green sans decals) with flared drop bars, wald basket mounted to Nitto rando rack, and on the rear a raggedy well-worn Carradice saddlebag. The bike is leaning against a defunct sugar shack with a sign reading “Pure Pennsylvania Maple Syrup sold here.” Disappointingly the nectar of the tree gods was not available for purchase.
Linocut print by Ben Wildflower of a toad eating a worm. Above the toad’s head in a suggestion of the shape of a halo are the words DEFUND THE POLICE.
In the foreground, a thumbs down. Behind that, a cybertruck driving on a Philly street.
Bar graph showing 5 days of 20,000+ steps on 5 days and less than 9,000 on the two other days.
Guy Fawkes mask as worn by character “V” in the graphic novel and film “V for Vendetta”