What Happened to the Hydrangea ?

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  Headshot with Installation performance

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  What Happened to the Hydrangea, 2022 Vase with photo on clear film

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  What Happened to the Hydrangea II, 2022 Vase with photo on clear film

What Happened to the Hydrangea, 2022

Installation

Photograph on Clear Film and Vase

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.