Part of a larger installation project called Faith in the Seeds, Mohamoud’s black steel dandelions are notable for both their beauty and their artifice. The dandelions memorialize Black people killed by police violence. Hardy wildflowers that can survive in even the harshest conditions, dandelions are known to be among the most nutritious plants on the planet. Nonetheless, they became classified as weeds in the majority White suburbs of North America, where pristine green lawns signal a homeowner’s assiduousness and dominion over nature. In Mohamoud’s exhibition Let Them Consume Me In The Light at Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St., her dandelions are bathed in a soft, yellow-orange light, like a peaceful sunset. Pillows offered visitors a chance to sit among the dandelions—what Mohamoud refers to as a “melanin charging station,” a space of peace and lightness to just exist in and absorb energy before having to go back out into a world filled with racism and hate. “The eradication of Black bodies by the American police is analogous with dandelions,” Mohamoud says. “Dandelions are beautiful, but people hate this flower. We have conditioned ourselves for this response. I couldn’t unsee the comparison between the resilience of dandelions and the resilience of the Black community. The African diaspora, it spreads its seeds in the wind.”