Dream Blossom XXXVIII, 2026 | Open Edition
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description: _______________ 'The kaleidoscopic colours and lighting in the photographs evoke both the hues and strobes of rave culture with its PLUR values (Peace, Love, Unity, Respect), and stained glass windows in an ancient church' Lucy Davies, New Photography of the Flower, 2025 _______________ The Meaning of Flowers I was more focused on making political work, whether it be about drug addiction or the situation in Northern Ireland. To take something like flowers and really try and make the subject matter your own is difficult. Gareth McConnell, Frieze Week, 2021 Meaning of flowers: Hibiscus. Rare and delicate beauty Violet (purple). First love Foxglove. Insecurity Fern. Magic, enchantment Poppy. Imagination, oblivion, eternal sleep Depictions of flowers in McConnell’s works: It could be said that, commencing with dead or plastic flowers, McConnell has worked through many hierarchies of floral representation . . . A poignant, beautiful photograph . . . an ominous, soiled, light switch in an undertaker’s, Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland (NOTE), some kitsch flowers embossed on the wallpaper behind it. A poignant, beautiful photograph . . . a sad and soiled mattress with a machine-stitched flower pattern decoration. A poignant, beautiful photograph . . . a vintage tin of butobarbitone (a lighthearted barbiturate derivative) in front of which are some flower petals, the flowers made from what is probably a cheap, oil based plastic (moulded, extruded, or pressed). The light in the butobarbitone photograph has fallen on the tin and flowers with an improbably patient, calm, gradation of tone. A less poignant, but similarly beautiful photograph . . . poor Mickey Waldorf’s flat – Mickey and some desiccated, real flowers. RIP Mickey and his desiccated flowers, gone into finality – the absolute. Poppy. Imagination, oblivion, eternal sleep (£10 bag) McConnell’s lost childhood friends: Stuart – murdered George – suicide Patrick – suicide Jim – alcoholic death John – alcoholic death Ja…
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