by Sofja Akhmetova

She speaks in accents

IPFS
She speaks in accents

28 January 2022TEZOSIPFS

"There is no language that speaks so powerfully to the mind as that of Nature. It is intelligible both to the young and to the old, to the ignorant and to the learned, to the lisping infant as well as to the hoary age, to the untutored savage of the forest as well as to the most favored votary of science." Language of Flowers, 1834

The artwork takes the form of generative botanical compositions and is based on the Victorian Language of Flowers. At the times natural expressions of feelings were frowned upon and highly discouraged, flowers became a communicational tool conveying one's delicate feelings to another, yet in a socially acceptable manner. For successful translation, the interlocutors resorted to publications that collected meanings for each plant and its presentation in a particular context. The piece is based on a range of dictionaries and generates compositions with messages nature carries this season. The materials were picked and scanned by the author. The generative code was written by @neelts

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