Umwelt: Talk To The Flowers II

WHD: 3× 600mm x 2000mm x 600mm

Material: Water, everlasting daisies, metal, TPC heating elements, plastic, cellophane, rocks, rice-paper, thread, wire, single-channel sound.

Year: 2026

Exhibition: Hatched: National Graduate Show 2026- Perth Institute Of Contemporary Arts (PICA)

3 chambers holding everlasting daisies, open and close due to varying temperature and moisture levels.

Our breaths and words holds moisture from our lungs, used as a poetic communicative medium to facilitate interspecies communication with non-sentient beings. Moisture is apart of these flower’s Umwelt, and they are considered flowers of immortality and resilience. You are invited to speak your troubles, woes to the flowers, as they close they will hold the words for you, and when they open, they will let them go for you. A therapeutic experience to remind you of your own resilience through hard times. As these flowers last forever, so does your strength.

These flowers understand us through the language of moisture, forming kinship with unlikely ecologies through a dystopian cult-like practice.