Flora Batava
Vaccum sealed flowers and a broken vending machine;
to be unpractical in a practically disguised system
Art work produced for an exhibition, alluding to the new publication,
‘Flora Batava’ - an archive of the diverse botanical species, native to the Dutch land.
This vending machine deliberately calls for people to embrace the non-functional.
The simple captivation to the beauty of nature, poetic layers hidden in systems,
and the strangeness in finding non-familiarness in familiar subjects presents us
with living in the midst of surviving, parallel to impracticalities within practicality.
In collaboration with the National Library of the Netherlands
Electronics, Arduino, plexiglass, vaccumseals, and flowers
Guided by Pawel Pokutycki and Leonardo Scarin
2024 Client Assignment