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Decorative Forms of Identity
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Flowers don’t offend. They don’t make an obvious statement. They simply are. And within their quietude, occur endless little dramas. Flowers are individuals who are a part of a greater whole. The greater whole both confines them and nourishes them at the same time. Flowers are alive and yet static. They are limited to their location.
They are separate, but in a group, it is their commonality that becomes significant. And within this commonality the differences grow more perceptible and bewildering. So many variations on a simple theme, so many possibilities…
Flowers are temporary. They inspire a desire to posses them. And this desire can be satisfied only for a short while, before they transform and disappear. They relate to what is happening around them and to them. They form patterns and they are patterns…patterns of life, of environments, of relationships, of events. Patterns repeat, break, reassemble and recreate into new ones. Flowers live out their potential and die quickly. They are minute individuals with minute destinies of utmost importance…the continuance of life.
This work addresses issues of personal identity. There are several groups of blossoms, which address different aspects of our identity, such as: Initial Blossoms representing essential and unchanging identity traits; Evolved Blossoms illustrating adopted and evolutionary identity traits that naturally develop out of our core traits; and Incidental Blossoms which represent invented identity traits that are ultimately disposable- such as cultural or social traits. There can be as many different blossoms as there are idiosyncrasies.