“Flowers constitute a backdrop to everyday life: lining highways and framing cities and parks, adorning our houses and gardens, growing and dying throughout the seasons. Despite this perception of flowers as background information, they are integral to the human experience, as they hold the power to nourish and heal, to poison and delight, to put us to sleep and intoxicate us, or even trigger an expansion of consciousness. At birth and death, blossoms are prerequisites, as they also are at festive mealtimes and celebrations. We give flowers as tokens of love, friendship, homage, and hospitality.”
Lucia Fainzilber
