It wasn’t until I was standing in front of a temple covered with broken ceramics in Central Vietnam that I finally connected a story my friend once told me with my need to leave bits of tile in public spaces. His tale was one I’d heard before, either on the news or in another town, but what stood out to me most was his reminder of that day: the absence of two blue tiles in the cafe floor that had been too stained with blood to save.

On May 30, 2012 Cafe Racer was the site of a mass shooting that took the lives of 4 people, injured others and forever changed the lives of those who were there that day. To celebrate the lives we lost and to raise money for those impacted we created a 500 run of calendars, sold only at the Cafe.