Place Without Possession

This series reimagines traditional national and nautical flags using delicate hand-pressed flowers. Built from the shared visual language of flags, such as stripes, blocks, crosses, circles and simple geometric forms, the works explore the contrast between fragile natural materials and symbols usually associated with power and identity.
Historically, flags have been used to mark territory, communicate across distance or create fixed systems of identity and instruction.

By reconstructing these coded systems with organic, slowly changing materials, the works move away from authority and ownership towards something more peaceful: ideas of place, connection and our evolving relationship with nature and borderless land.

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