If there’s one takeaway from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s how important essential workers are to our society.
Stan Herd is an artist from Lawrence, Kansas, who says he’s become incredibly thankful for health care workers, first responders, mail carriers, grocery store workers, and all of the other people who are still going to work each day to help the rest of us get by.
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“They just get up every day and go put [them]selves on the line,”Stan explained. “I mean it’s heroic to me. So, there’s not a lot that I can do out here. I’m an artist and I do art fields and so I decided to create something for them.â€
Stan is famous worldwide for his incredible crop art designs, which have been featured in noteworthy publications like National Geographic, among others. He’s been making these larger-than-life works of art for over 40 years!
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He decided to use his talents to transform a 1/2-acre field just south of Lawrence, Kansas, into a thank you note for frontline workers around the globe. He makes these designs by measuring carefully and using a weed wacker and other plantings to achieve certain colors and textures.
For his “Tribute to the Frontline” design, Stan used purple echinacea to add a pop of color, but the harsh weather in Kansas this spring gave the design a more yellow tinge. Still, his finished artwork is simply stunning.
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“Thank you to all the frontline workers around the globe from the heartland,” Stan wrote of his newest creation. It’s “showing us that we really actually are all connected,” he added. “And I think there will be a lesson out of that I think that will be a positive lesson in some way in the end I hope.â€
What a lovely way to say thank you! Share Stan’s work of art to express your thanks for the countless people out there working on the frontlines of the fight against coronavirus!
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