workshop

Our workshop this week began working in groups of four, using each other as valuable resources for research, and sparking new ideas.

We took on the role of ‘expert’, tasked with providing insight into specific questions/topics prompted by the researcher.

In my prompts, I asked:

  1. Flowers as signifiers = what do they say that we cannot?

  2. Conversation as connection = how can we facilitate it?

  3. Temporality = how can time be manipulated?

So many thoughts and ideas came about that I had thought about fleetingly, or at surface-level, but am now inspired to delve deeper into.

Such as:

  • the breath + photosynthesis = as creating a co-dependency between plants + humans

  • DELICACY

  • signs of change, loss, seasons

  • the trading of language, Babylon

  • connection as forefront of change

  • freezing time, through picking a flower

  • manipulating memory, retelling stories

Key words:

  • delicacy

  • change

  • dependency + collaboration

  • retelling!

Presentation

I then spent some time collating my thoughts, ideas, and research so far - into making a presentation about my project, and semi-proposal into the types of territories I might like to be working within.

video/audio/interview

curation, collection

exhibition, display

multi-media forms of presentation

display vibes

BEGINNING MIDDLE END

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

temporality, fragility, cycles

flower displays

display

  • with headphones, on the walls

  • alongside photomontages, inspired by Linder

who?

  • sellers @ flower markets

  • florists

  • other people

incorporate

  • persona making for when I interview

  • asking questions OF objects

  • multi-media

  • verbatim

maybes

  • more in the moment creation

  • conversation between people + flowers, as well as the interviewer!

  • the language of flowers

rose in a glass case

seeds mid-growth

water installation/rain

what do i want to address?

flowers = conversation starters

yes they have meanings, but

what more do they say?

interactive

plant a seed station! take it away (influenced by smashing hearts)

press a flower, pause time

make a paper flower

meaning of flowers

  1. in a literal, sentimental sense = through interviews

  2. in a metaphoric sense = passing of time + impacts

growth

  • of flowers

  • of people

cycles

  • starting physically in the same location they end in - exhibition loops, can enter at any point

  • taking away a freshly planted seed = taking away a new beginning to nurture

what am i researching?

how to manipulate time - pause it, record it, begin it

what flowers mean to people, why we go back to them despite their fragility

how to cultivate care, connection, conversation