The experiment was to modify the original message of the images more and more by means of copying and mixing, until memory faculty and perception gain access to new associations. This was inspired by Gertrude Stein´s texts and her literary work where she puts words into a grammatically correct order without thinking about their meaning. Letters develop their own lives, they are newly read and understood.

In Flowers and Images, exclusively found footage, the images are modified and revised until they become impressionistic surfaces and paintings. A poem by Edith Sitwell is flowing over them, a hymn of colors and flowers. Together with the minimalistic “Where the Bee Sucks”, a composition by Michael Nyman, it gives an aesthetic soundtrack.

“Where The Bee Sucks Where The Bee Sucks There suck I; In a cowslip Bell I lie; there I couch When owls do cry. On the Bat´s back I do fly After Summer merrily. Merrily Merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that Hangs on the bough.” Michael Nyman

For there is no Height on which there are not flowers.
For flowers have great virtues for all the senses.
For the flowers glorifies God and the root parries the adversary.
For the flowers have their angles even the words of God´s Creation.
For the wrap and the woof of flowers are worked by perpetual moving spirits.