✿ a conversation with the bouquet ✿
SOUL OF THE FLORA
INSTALLATION · 2022
← the flowers,
singing →✦
Soul of the Flora explores forms of communication that exist beyond conventional human language.
Inspired by Damanhur's Concert of the Flowers, the project uses an Arduino to translate electrical activity from plants into sound, creating a composition generated by a bouquet of flowers. These recordings are paired with rotating 3D scans, positioning the flowers between physical and digital states.
The work emerged from an interest in translation: not between languages, but between different systems of perception.
by converting biological processes into sound and image, the project considers how technology might make visible — or audible — forms of communication that would otherwise remain inaccessible.
Presented as a continuous loop on a CRT monitor, Soul of the Flora reflects on cycles, connectivity and the shifting boundaries between nature, technology and human understanding.
voltage → notes
Alligator clips read the faint electrical activity across a leaf. An Arduino UNO maps those fluctuations into MIDI; the bouquet performs itself.
⚡ the plant is the composer ⚡
held between physical and digital ✦
