Night Blooming Flower

Night Blooming Flower (11 min, 2013)

We often bring flowers to our loved ones in the hospital. And then, in the dark, these flowers become the silent witnesses to the changes the patient makes in their transition from life to death.

'Night Blooming Flower' is a meditation on death, memory, acceptance and the passage into the world of the dead, specifically the moment of leaving.

Originally presented as a video installation, this circular film is projected onto a Vietnam era silk parachute that gently sways as if breathing.