Pia Höhfeld
Pia’s 60 flowers made from handmade paper is the celebration of the circularity in nature and emphasises the value of human’s respectful intervention within this circularity.
The artist demonstrates a strong environmental engagement by using natural materials such as paper shreds and vegetable peels to create biodegradable flowers, which decompose and give life to new plants, highlighting the potential for beauty and renewal in discarded materials and emphasizing the cycle of life and decay in nature.
Used material, technique, support:
Open-air installation: 60 flowers made from handmade paper (shredded bills from an accounting firm and flower seeds, colored with beetroot and carrot peels from a kitchen and glued with potato starch) are placed on a public lawn in the German town Deggendorf. The flowers disappear after 2-3 months due to the natural decay process. Next spring wildflowers will grow from the seeds in the paper.
Artwork Description:
The installation celebrates the cycle of life and decay found in nature. From unwanted paper shreds and leftover vegetable peels, new flowers are made and used to brighten up the cityscape. Through the outdoor conditions, the paper flowers will decompose. Because only natural ingredients were used, no harmful residue will remain. The seeds in the paper will then give life to new flowers ( field gold flower, nodding thistle, meadow caraway, knapweed, field delphinium, viper’s head, woad, mother-wort, small beavernelle) the following year. This is meant to show how much potential and beauty can be found even in shredded accounting paperwork by giving the the cellulose fibers new forms and life.
