I bloom once a decade

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A Flora of HungersDigital design, Research & Development

Ten rare flowers, partially cast in chrome. Three hungers run through them — intimacy, decay, rage. Not a catalog of beauty but of appetite. Every specimen is still, quietly, eating.

The ten specimens:

1. Rafflesia arnoldii "I smell like what you'll become"
2. Dracula simia "My face isn't mine. It's what you see in it"
3. Ghost Orchid "I barely exist. That's how you can finally come close"
4. Hydnora africana "I am not a flower. I am the hunger of the earth"
5. Titan Arum "I bloom once a decade"
6. Tacca chantrieri "My black isn't mourning. It's what's left after mourning"
7. Psychotria elata "Everything is about me"
8. Dicentra "My heart bleeds every spring. That's not a metaphor."
9. Lithops "I play dead to stay alive."
10. Strelitzia "Flowers should have had teeth."