Happy Birthday, Yashua Klos! "OUR LABOUR," a monumental woodblock print and ink canvas, was inspired by Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry Murals at the Detroit Institute of Arts, which Klos first viewed while visiting his relatives in the city. Sometime after, Klos began to conceptualize Rivera’s murals as a compositional blueprint for his own family tree, and the legacy of his family’s work in the Detroit auto plants. In it, the original faces of Rivera’s anonymous, mostly white male workers are replaced with portraits of his own Black relatives. For Klos, reimagining these subjects becomes its own form of record-making and keeping—an affirmation of his family’s labor, both within their relationships to one another, and the larger, overlooked history of Black labor that built the United States. "We Hold The Wildflowers: Yashua Klos" is currently on view at @zidounbossuytgallery, through October 29! An expanded version of his solo exhibition "OUR LABOUR," previously shown at the Wellin Museum of Art this past spring, opens October 22 at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Image: Detail of Yashua Klos, "OUR LABOUR," 2020-21, woodblock print on muslin and oil-based, relief block ink on dropcloth, mounted on canvas #YashuaKlos