2024 - ongoing series of installations from research of apology gifts.
14 flower bouqets

The room is permeated by a distinctive olfactory experience. A composition of vivid hues and shapes encourage the viewer to examine more closely. The handwritten notes convey the context and illustrate the manner in which flowers were given to a person in order to repair a relationship, while also being the title of each bouquet. Red Calla Lilies, wrapped with a satin ribbon and accompanied by a note which reads ”I got flowers even though he didn’t mean his apology, and also a designer purse.” I asked people who had experienced violent partnerships whether they had also received apology gifts. Can the repeated gesture of a gift of reconciliation be a deliberate strategy of manipulation and control, does the commodity value of things gifted stand for the ‘buying off of guilt’?