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Time Is a Sequence of Flowers (artist’s book)
An atmospheric meditation on color, plants, and the way we perceive and experience seasonal changes, Time Is a Sequence of Flowers approaches the flow of time through plants, colors and poems. This artist’s book combines long-exposure images of plants and color palettes extracted from the photos. The photos and palettes are divided into seasons, emanating an atmosphere that invites connections to natural elements and encourages the exploration of human perception of color and nature.
This is the last part of a series which includes a screenprinted textile installation and a series of long-exposure photos I’ve been taking of plants over the last several years. Time Is a Sequence of Flowers is riso-printed and handbound, and produced in collaboration with Replikat Press, Vienna.
All the photos are printed on the Risograph in four colors, while the color names are printed on a variety of handmade, very light papers that allow a glimpse of plants and inklings of color. Instead of trying to offer an exact imitation of colors, the book aims to awaken an atmospheric way of thinking and seeing that can be extended to plants and other living beings.
33 copies, 15,6x24,4 cm
80 pages, with slip case
Metapaper warm white 90 gsm + 120 gsm
No. 1–8: Wenzhou mulberry bark paper/No. 9–14: calligraphy paper/No. 15–33: Lenza color yellow 65 gsm
Riso-printed in pink, yellow, kelly green, blue and black
Stitch bound with my grandmother’s gobelin thread collection
Slip case: Metapaper Green Tea 300 gsm
Time Is a Sequence of Flowers (exhibition)
September 23–25, 2025, Hidden Space, Linz, Austria
Time Is a Sequence of Flowers is an exploration of the seasons of the living world, different color systems and the poetic potential of color naming. It focuses on strengthening the connection with natural transition and metamorphic processes that can still be felt under the current climatic conditions.
Color palettes and combinations are extracted from diary-like, long-exposure photographs of plants, arranged by season. The names of the individual colors are compared with historical color systems such as “Werner’s Nomenclature of Colors” (1814) and Sanzo Wada’s “Dictionary of Color Combinations” (1933–1934). Presented in an exhibition at the Hidden Space in Linz, Austria, and an accompanying publication in September and October 2025.
Currently on display at the Lichthof of the University of Art and Design, Hauptplatz 8, Linz.
Good Demons Only/Samo dobri demoni (poetry book)
Good Demons Only intertwines human experience with other forms of life that shape our perception of what we refer to as nature. It delves into the understanding of our existence as part of the world – which is, in the book of poems, understood as an environment and multi-species community. Chance encounters and a kind of perceptive openness are essential for the closeness and intimacy of the atmosphere in the poems, in which the human experience of encountering plants and animals is merged into linguistic forms of being. Language is thus allowed to grow beyond the limits of solitary existence and offer a vision of a more powerful reality that is only possible in connection with (an)other life. An excerpt from the collection was published in German in March 2025 in the journal “Literatur und Kritik” (Salzburg, Austria). Samo dobri demoni will be published in 2026 by HDP (Croatian Writers’ Society) in Zagreb, Croatia.