the flower has finished blooming
The Flower Has Finished Blooming and Remains on Display, collaboration with Sean Barton. 4 vcolor process billboard, 12’x16’. Installation in conjunction with Seattle Art Fair 2019
The Flower Has Finished Blooming and Remains on Display is a celebration of the potency in what remains. The text gleaned at the Huntington Botanical Gardens, taken from a sign displayed after the corpse flower had finished blooming. A banner of unexpected intention and poetry.
The underlying flower piece is a disassembled peony; the petals pressed and delicately sewn back together, made years previous as part of my video, That Which Has Been Your Delight. This project references the power of moving through and being expanded by the transformative process of grief. A process ultimately revealing the equally proportional space in which we are capable of expanding into pleasure.
These combined parts shifted and took on added meaning from their initial intention. The message presented; that while none of us exist without loss in some form, the beauty is in the powerful vulnerability to remain. Not in spite of the damages, but through an amplified capacity encompassing the multitudes of experiences that we hold.
The Flower Has Finished Blooming and Remains on Display, installation
reveal
That Which Has Been Your Delight, initially created for Out of Sight, a survey of contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest, is a performative video responding to life cycles, loss, and the power that grief has to expand us. This piece celebrates the capacity we have to remain vulnerable, and is a testament to our hearts continually making space for pleasure. The title was taken from Kahlil Gibran's poem On Joy and Sorrow.