Inspired by the Wisconsin prairie and the recent trend of flower arrangement and landscape design, I explore the potential of plant as an extension of myself. From cut and arranged flowers with no root to wild “weeds” that lead their own full lives without human’s intervention, I find rich visual vocabulary in botany and also in how we use them in real life like gardens and in meta-reality such as paintings. As a woman, whose gender is often referred to as “flowers” at their “prime,” I understand the lives of flowers (more accurately the plants with flowers) personally thus tell my life stories through them from the perspective as the subject rather than as the object that are controlled by others.
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