Metal flower sculptures in this exhibit at the Botanic Gardens in Washington D.C. serve as teaching tools to
display videos about flowers as well as seed samples, and other things from our everyday lives, which are made from different types of flowers & plants.
The large sunflowers have videos playing inside of their “eyes,” while
smaller flowers serve as seed cases/pods to show different types
of seeds or spices extracted from flowers, which are used in cooking
or for other common purposes. Color dyes are also created from flowers,
and wood
from certain types of trees and plants is used to make instruments, such as violins.
Plants have also inspired fun quotations, as seen in this leafy, green metal plant sculpture, which states:
“Let's get to the root of the problem” (upper left side of plant)
among other familiar sayings, inscribed on its leaves.
Right: with a photoshop painting technique applied to sunflowers
all flower photos taken at The Botanic Gardens in Washington, D.C.© Jackie Apel