EIKO ISHIBASHI / JIM O'ROURKE – Lifetime of a Flower LP synth the most concise and wrenching

the most concise and wrenching expression of our current conditions I can think of

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artwork by Craig Tattersall

a spoken hymn to absence

EIKO ISHIBASHI / JIM O'ROURKE – Lifetime of a Flower LP synth the most concise and wrenchingFor the exhibition Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim ORourke had created the installation Lifetime of a Flower in which they set parameters but allowed the process itself to grow uncontrollably. Literally: in the garden of their Japanese house, they planted seeds and filmed the plant growing and thriving throughout the duration of the exhibition. Visitors were able to watch the stream in real time and they heard a