What You Seek is Seeking You, 2020
Site and time specific intervention, photography, Alu dibond, 110 x 70 cm
What You Seek is Seeking You consists of sunflowers illuminated from dusk till dawn. Having completed their life cycles, bowed their heads. They are breaking assumptions by choosing not to face the sun, anymore. Quoted from Rumi, What You Seek is Seeking You reminds us of the necessity of a paradigm shift as well as nature’s response to the climate crisis. What brings light to the rebellious flowers at dusk is not that they seek the source outside, but they are rather concerned with their own being.
A flower identified by facing the sun.
Who would the sunflower be without the sun?
Who would the moonflower be without the moon?
Does the sun rise and set constantly, or is it the earth spinning?
Can you find Clytie in darkness, Apollon?
Dance through sunset into dawn
Not you,
Let her pursue you
What if what you call you, is not only you,
What you call it, is not only it?
To carry on with life
Apollon, the source you were made to believe you are bound,
What if, instead of the sky,
Lies within you?
Not to the sun
The brightness of those looking within
Already there in fact
Lies in themselves within