A Southern California man is raising awareness after his father died from COVID-19 last week.
"What I wanted to do was make a project that involved the whole community, as many people in the nation as possible," Lutyens said.
The memorial is growing. As the pandemic claims more victims, Lutyens is planning for at least half a million roses in the next few months across the country.
"This pandemic, this virus, it's like an invisible entity. The idea of making these roses is each one is something you can touch and hold and feel and generate but also when you see all the roses together, you begin to realize the full scale of this thing," Lutyens said.