What Happened to the Hydrangea ?
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Drawing on Rilke’s Blue Hydrangea*, this work represents an idea more than a physical representation of a bouquet. At first glance, the work appears as a white vase holding a bouquet. On closer inspection, the flowers dissolve into a photographic image – printed on translucent film -revealing representation in place of nature. The installation inhabits the space between natural and artificial world, image and object. A bouquet emerges as a sculptural object created through a photograph – branches held in suspension – where material presence and conceptual substitution converge. The artwork offers a form of permanence, in which the flower continues to exist beyond its natural lifespan as memory and constructed presence.
*Blue Hydrangea is a poem By Rainer Maria Rilke, published in New Poems. By transforming a wilting flower into a "thing of art" (Kunstding), Rilke suggests that while the physical flower is subject to time, the poem preserves its essence eternally. It reflects a cycle where death is not an end but a necessary step toward renewal.
What Happened to the Hydrangea, 2022
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