Living Ghost Bike

Ghost bikes are roadside memorials, placed where cyclists have been killed while riding their bike. I drew this after attending a rally in New York calling for safer streets and honoring the 26 people who’ve been killed riding a bike in New York this year. Both New York and Denver (two cities I call home) are on pace to have the most cyclist deaths in a year since enacting vision zero. We need safer streets for everyone, regardless of how they chose to get around. I knew I wanted to have a tree growing out of the ghost bike before I started this piece. A reminder that we live on through what we leave behind and nature always finds a way.