Ravaged Flower of the Future is a triptych of C-print photogram made with sunlight and a sunflower grown with water I gathered from Fukushima after the Daiichi nuclear powerplant disaster. The photograms are placed upon the wall above a pile of burnt sunflower seeds titled, Death's Seedlings.

Sunflowers were a common sight among many on that bright morning in Hiroshima in 1945, a last possible sight for many. Today, sunflowers are believed to have an ability to clean radioactive soil by consuming the radiation through their roots. The study is still on-going and it may not be the short/quick solution, but I wonder if in the near future, a scientist will create a sunflower that can consume the radioactive material and can live off the radiation. And if so, it is only natural to think that the post nuclear apocalyptic world will be covered with sunflowers for the next few hundred years. Nothing but sunflowers, blowing radioactive ash in the contaminated wind.

Ravaged Flower of the Future 
2018
Chromogenic Print, Sunlight, Sunflower
Installation: Various, ​Print: 60”x21”

Exhibition History:
2018: Creativce Alliance, MD
2019: Candela Gallery