Last Touch

The pursuit of beauty is a lifestyle. Humans are naturally attracted to things that look good. In general, bouquets are the most direct and simple way to express one’s aesthetic, with a variety of colors, types, packaging and combinations. Also, bouquets are often used at social events, where the giver attaches different meanings to the flower.

Inspiration

Have you ever bought a bouquet of flowers? For what and whom? Did you throw them away later? But less well known is that millions of fresh flowers are destroyed every year, even before ever being sold. This project focuses on dying flowers through a distance sensing installation. It aims to tell a story that seeming sapless things can extend goodness and beauty if only we can better accept the so-called withered.

Flowers take several months to grow and be picked, but only last for about two weeks after being turned into a bouquet. Even if the picked flowers are kept in a vase, they will eventually be thrown away when they start to wilt, as most people would consider wilted flowers to be no longer “beautiful”.

From ancient times till now, flowers have also been used to shows people’s attitudes, feelings and hopes on life, such as many literary works.

Take a closer look at flowers, but not only its appearance

1-day flowers

1-week flowers

1-month flowers

Flower therapy

According to Dr. Indroneil Mukerjee, who is a

Bach flower therapist and psychotherapist, flowers can be helpful in healing mental and emotional conditions. Because flowers work as a kind of catalyst that reinstarting the inner harmony in an individual and reconnecting people with nature for inner peace.

Flower and sense

Last Touch

People aware and be attracted by the decaying flowers, then spontaneously touch it. Like every last touch before you throw the a bouquet of dead flowers away.

Last Visual

Increase acceptance of ageing flowers and all the minor defect in our life

Waste

Many events use large quantities of flowers, such as weddings or graduation ceremonies, but the events are usually short, ending in a few hours or a day or so, so many of the fresh flowers are simply disposed of as rubbish.

Oblivion

Because of the desire for quantity and vanity, people also buy oversized bouquets to satisfy their needs.

“Shallow” Aesthetic

With the emergence of social platforms and various aesthetic bloggers, many modern people are stuck with a very superficial aesthetic and lack the spirit to discover beauty for themselves.

The Assimilation of Aesthetics

Photo spot, trending style, instagram filter... Everything is becoming the same, and everyone’s aesthetic preferences are becoming more and more similar as presented by the mobile phone “Guess what you like”.

Human Life Cycle

In fact, the life cycle of human is very similar to that of flowers, which also undergoes ageing. More broadly, this is actually the law of the everything, from new to old, from young to old. I hope to raise people’s acceptance of ageing, of decaying, and to redefine beauty as something that doesn’t just about gorgeous appearance.