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“The world as you know it – where males aren’t devoured by plants, where tiny flowers serve as food and where a couple doesn’t need a spore to have a child – is new and still changing.”
Agnieszka Polska, The Book of Flowers, 2023
In Agnieszka Polska’s ecological history of humankind, we discover a new ancestry rooted in human-flora symbiosis. In this world, plant nectar flows through our veins alongside blood, blood is spilt in service of plants, and flower cups serve as incubators of love; they are the setting for procreation and pollination which culminates in the death of the male human lover. Instead, it is the expecting mothers which are rewarded through their mythical status, for the toil of their reproductive labour.
This is a story which has been buried beneath others for centuries, such as those told by the men who eventually overcame the carnivorous plants which once consumed them, or those told by modernity, which separated nature…
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“The world as you know it – where males aren’t devoured by plants, where tiny flowers serve as food and where a couple doesn’t need a spore to have a child – is new and still changing.”
Agnieszka Polska, The Book of Flowers, 2023
In Agnieszka Polska’s ecological history of humankind, we discover a new ancestry rooted in human-flora symbiosis. In this world, plant nectar flows through our veins alongside blood, blood is spilt in service of plants, and flower cups serve as incubators of love; they are the setting for procreation and pollination which culminates in the death of the male human lover. Instead, it is the expecting mothers which are rewarded through their mythical status, for the toil of their reproductive labour.
This is a story which has been buried beneath others for centuries, such as those told by the men who eventually overcame the carnivorous plants which once consumed them, or those told by modernity, which separated nature…
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