Flora Arcana

Mário Pires

Flowers have their own language and communicate between themselves in a dimension inaccessible to humans.

I believe that once existed a common language that enabled all living creatures to communicate with each other, but humans have forgotten that language, just like we’ve forgotten everything else that connected us to the natural world.

We wanted to create our own world, with our own rules, in a vain attempt to surpass nature’s ingenuity.

Flowers are life sources, spreading their seeds, far beyond their location. The connection we had with that fertilizing power has long been lost.

My wish to rebuild that lost connection was this project’s guiding light.

Each of these images tries to break that barrier and restore the lost bond between us.