Iced Flower
Vincent IP
2013
Installation, 1 rose stem, decorative petals, flower pot, wood pieces, water and ice
An installation that considers the biology of a flower and the science behind its growth within its naturalistic environment.This work’s degree of artifice is highlighted through the use of decorative petals that is left to thaw after freezing, and with its resulting similarities to a real flower’s disintegration with time, it is an artwork that consciously reevaluates the line between nature and man-made objects. How far can we replicate the living? Can we mimic nature or are we supplying our own realities?
Statement:
The idea here is that I use decoration petal shape papers as a basic element. It is simply considering the structure of flower. In natural world, Plants need appropriate temperature, humidity, water and air to grow up. I decide to use water as a linkage form an immature flower. I insert the petal shape papers one by one into a film case, which is as a holder to stabilize the shape. After finish the structure, I add water into the film case and freeze the flower. The petal shape paper will linkup by the physical form change of water to ice.
The iced flower will bloom under appropriate conditions like normal flowers. In room temperature, the ice will transform to water. The linkage of petals will deform by heat. Humidity affects how fast is the blooming because the papers will dry by low humidity. It means the flexibility of papers will change by water run off. Those factors will make the iced flower bloom, even fading.