once there were no flowers
Solo exhibition by Calliandra Marion Hermanson
May 2022
once there were no flowers is an installation-based work which explores human connections with angiosperm beings, inspired in part by the 1957 essay “How flowers changed the world" by anthropologist Loren Eiseley.
Incorporating flowering plants (both personally grown and salvaged) alongside found scientific objects and prints, this installation centers angiosperms existences to recognize their criticality in the enabling of human evolution and their continued entanglements with human beings.
Calliandra Marian Hermanson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Albuquerque, NM. Influenced by a background in anthropology and plant sciences, her work explores human-plant relationships within a framework of western scientific practices and inspired by the emerging transdisciplinary field of critical plant studies as it challenges the privileged place of the human in relation to plant life.
Incorporating flowering plants (both personally grown and salvaged) alongside found scientific objects and prints, this installation centers angiosperms existences to recognize their criticality in the enabling of human evolution and their continued entanglements with human beings.
Calliandra Marian Hermanson is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Albuquerque, NM. Influenced by a background in anthropology and plant sciences, her work explores human-plant relationships within a framework of western scientific practices and inspired by the emerging transdisciplinary field of critical plant studies as it challenges the privileged place of the human in relation to plant life.
