Late Bloomers

Tecnica: Photograph of flower arrangement and rescued vase

Dimensione: 40cm x 60cm

Anno: 2026

Descrizione: “Nothing to Hide” is a composition built around a “flower frog”, a reusable metal structure used to support and shape floral arrangements.
The piece references earlier, more sustainable methods of flower arranging, when flower frogs were commonly used before the widespread introduction of synthetic floral foam in the 1950s.
Today, floral foam is widely used for its convenience, but it is also increasingly criticized for its environmental impact. Against the growing critique of single-use floral foam and the emerging “No Floral Foam” movement, this work points back to reusable ways of building floral compositions.
The arrangement inverts typical floral design practices in which support structures are usually hidden from view. Here, the mechanic – the flower frog – is deliberately exposed and becomes the central element of the composition, with nothing to hide.
Dried flowers emerge from a mid-century “rescued vase” discovered at a flea market in London, supported by the exposed flower frog, highlighting impermanence, change, and layers of history.