Look mom, my work!: Blue Flowers

Blue Flowers / Blaue Blumen

The final task for the Design1o1 MOOC is making blue flowers.

On this page you see all the blue flowers I made.

(Dis)Assemble

study of the object

After studying the object I started making blue flowers.

Please scroll down to see more pictures and explanations of the following blue flowers:

- Eternal Love (Eternal Tears in Blue, Heavens Bloulder, Indestructable connectedness, Heart Flowers)

- Blueming
- SelfWateringFlowers
- Floating Fragrances
- Blue flower orchestra
- Blossom Remedies
- Blue RoseRockers & Love Potion
- Nicotiana Tabacum Flower
- CaressMe Flower
- Just Something Blue
- Playfull Flowers
- HandyManGarden
- PuppyLove
- ShadowFlower
- Blue Springs Forever
- Icosahedron Flower
- Platonic Flower Park
- Abstract Platonic Family

Eternal Love

"Eternal Love" is a representation of everlasting love.

The beautiful and gentle side of love, but also the hard and painful side and the changes thereof over time.

Materials: wire, stone, paper, string, pearl, glass, paint.

Before Design 1o1 I never worked with wire and stones. For this final assignment I choose these materials because I wanted to use materials I also used during Design 1o1. I enjoyed Week 11 ‘Telling Stories’ very much so the used materials of this week were definitely my first choice.

In each part of the work you see changes in the parameter ‘material’. By changing this parameter the expression of the love flower changes and the story that is told evolves in time.

Flower 1: Eternal Tears in Blue

No particular kind of flower because beauty (literally and figuratively) is in the eye of the beholder.

The flower is made of a pearl, representing a tear and eternity.

The pearl is wrapped with blue, delicate paper representing the softness but also delicacy of love.

The flower is also made up of iron wire with spikes/torns for love can be hard and painful.

Flower 2: Heavens Boulder

A stone, painted in heavens blue and wrapped in wire.

The stone represents lost loves.

They can be in heaven but also far far away.

In any case, a distance out of physical reach.

The wire represents sunshine and radiant air waves.The sun represents the cycles of death and rebirth and the warmth of true love

At the left top side, the wire is double folded representing the binding with heaven or any particular place. A place where someone is forced attached to, can’t leave, or even a deliberately chosen place.

On the right bottom side, the wire is cut open and a piece is laying on the base of the flower, representing (trying) to make contact from a distance.

Flower 3: Indestructable connectedness

A forget me not, made out of transparent glass because of its hardness but also fragility.

The shine of the beads symbolizes the beautiful side of love again.

The spikes of the wire are the painful side that love (at distance) can bring.

The whole can be supplemented with two heart-shaped flowers.
A small heart shaped flower representing, again, the hard and painful side of love.
And a larger heart shaped flower.

The wire of the large flower is laced with a soft and glossy light blue string.

This string symbolizes the beautiful soft side of love which prevails in the core of this heart-shaped flower.

The double strand string is hooked by hand (without hook). This is the importance shown by direct, face-to-face contact and the possibility to touch each other in contrast to remote contact through any medium whatsoever.

The thread is broken in several places and is tied together... If you really care about someone or love someone, you'll meet again.

It rises above the rest because true love conquers all and is eternal.

Blueming

Our wired world is blueming!

This is a further development of “Wired World” - Building networks around the world via the world wide web - that I made for homework #073.

It is created in memory of the Design 1o1 MOOC and especially the last week.
During this week, the world started blooming. Everywhere around the world blue flowers surfaced.

SelfWateringFlowers

Floating Fragrances

It symbolizes a bouquet of various blue flowers. The blue paper is odorless, especially compared to flowers. This bouquet has lost its fragrance hence the title ‘floating fragrances’. The opportunity to add fragrance sticks returns the bouquet to the bouquet.

Hence it can be used as an incense burner or holder for fragrance sticks

Blue flower orchestra

After a week of blue flowers I see everything is as a blue flower . . .
Btw do you know the names of the 'performing artists'?

Guess the names of the flowers. Multiple answers possible.

ɐןoıʌ .6

ǝǝɹʇ ʞɔıʇsɯnɹp .5

ɹǝʍoןɟ ǝɹʎl .4

ɹǝʍoןɟןןǝq / ןןǝqǝnןq .3

pǝǝʍ ǝןƃnq / ɹǝʍoןɟ ǝuıʌ ʇǝdɯnɹʇ / ןıpoɟɟɐp ʇǝdɯnɹʇ / sıɔɹɐu ʇǝdɯnɹʇ .2

ɹǝʍoןɟ uɹoɥ s’uǝɥ .1

:ʇɥƃıɹ oʇ ʇɟǝן ɯoɹɟ

Blossom Remedies

Flowers as a medicine

Blue RoseRockers & Love Potion

Characteristic for this sweet product is its wide application range.

It can be used as an Aphrodisiac Librigro for your Liberal Libido but also as a growth supplement for flowers. For an even stronger effect it is recommended to use it in combination with Love Potion.

Blue RoseRockers & Love Potion is a co-production of Down-Under & Pays-Bas / Rosanna Li & Brigitte Ockers

Especially created for #design1o1 #blaueblumen