Generally, Flowers are the attributes of spring personified one of the four seasons; of smell, one of the five senses; of the goddesses' flora and aurora. They symbolize the evanescence of human life in allegorical still life. They are also sometimes the attribute of hope; and of logic. And Flower stands in a vase in the scene of the annunciation.
Taking from Nookie's instinct, those softness infancy childhood memories and experiences, innuendo on the inheritance from the motherhood to a child. The imitation of Mothers, epitomes himself. The assimilation under the sewing machine vibration. The recycled material is inorganic; it's an innovation of renovation. The challenge is identifying what was inoperable and inordinate and what can be innovated.
Nook's flowers are the combination of social history, environmental awareness and also are the practical need from power. His works alienate us from the environment in which we are in extricable enmeshed, giving us the space to look and think again. |