Perhaps as nature’s most delicate example of survival, the beauty of a flower is but a mask for its true purpose. Some flowers, like thistles, thrive in harsh environments, while others like orchids are temperamental and bloom rarely. Many have intentionally evolved to enchant other species to endure—such as the smallest of honeybees that sprinkle themselves in pollen, hummingbirds whose bills have evolved perfectly alongside honeysuckles, and even humans that have gone from admiring blossoms to cultivating them in grand gardens and greenhouses.

Far from superficial in their necessity, flowers have always held significance to humanity. Sometimes, like the snowdrops of Galanthus nivalis, they serve simply as harbingers to spring. Victorian England famously practiced a “language of flowers”, where different arrangements signified feelings of love, friendship, grief, and mourning. In Japan, the soft and short blooms of cherry blossoms have held centuries of cultural significance for representing Mono no Aware, the appreciation of impermanence.

Flowers, much like humanity, are fleeting in their nature. Similar to the symbiotic relationships of the natural world, flowers and artists have long shared a special bond. While flowers serve as a muse, artists act as preservationists, taking petals to paintbrush and extending their lifespan and legacy far beyond their own. Claude Monet’s most famous subject was his home garden in Giverny, France. Frida Kahlo captured her tumultuous emotions by blending botanicals with her surreal self-portraiture. The large-scale interpretations of Georgia O'Keeffe’s irises, lilies, and magnolias sought to evoke the emotional significance of her subjects for busy city dwellers who, quite literally, rarely stopped to smell the flowers.

Nothing in the natural world is meant to last, from the short-lived blooms of a blossom to even the most meticulously preserved paintings; all are subjects and inevitable victims to time. Floraculture serves to shift that age-old narrative, empowered by the advent of blockchain technology. This celebration of contemporary floral artistry invites artists from around the world to collaborate in an inventive arrangement where our botanical subjects can be eternally preserved and admired as intended.

Meet our Featured Artists:

Sara 'Sparky' Baumann is an independent artist and the artist and founder behind the Women and Weapons NFT collection. She dreamed of being a full-time artist since she was a young girl, but until NFTs, she worked as a full-time Occupational Therapist in the hospital system and sold her art on the side. Through the power of digital art, NFTs, and Web 3.0, she can finally pursue her dream of being a full-time artist.

Aoife (pronounced ee-fah) is an artist, designer, creative director and web3 founder based in Ireland. She‘s been creating artwork that explores themes of perception, identity, reality, nature, mythology and sci-fi for over 18 years. Her work is driven by a desire to imagine what lives in the gaps of human perception and often aims to subvert expectations by combining the familiar in unfamiliar ways via queer and neurodivergent storytelling perspectives.

Noah Verrier is a former Art Professor and full time working Artist with a BFA and MFA specializing in oil painting. Verrier’s work has been exhibited around the world and has been collected by thousands, including various celebrities and noteworthy collectors. He has garnered numerous awards for his paintings including “One of the top 40 American Painters” by New American Paintings. Noah has been commissioned by some of the world's most iconic brands and has been featured by many well known publications including Vogue, Buzzfeed, and Entree Magazine where Noah’s work was called “Masterful and painterly, reminiscent of still life greats like Chardin, Sargent and Manet”.

AMYLILI is an artist and illustrator fighting anxiety through art.

Christine Clue is a self-taught 2D artist portraying events, feelings, relationships and situations through a blend of digital color, animalic metaphor, gentle gore, and poetry.

THEESEANMARTIN is a Filipino-American abstract artist whose work is inspired by the chaos that exists within boundaries, and just outside of it.

Pegah is a professional rug designer. Her style is inspired by nomadic rugs, and behind each design is a story. These stories are depicted with beautiful motifs and patterns.

Flo Meissner is an artist and illustrator from Germany. His work explores themes around the human condition, beauty and transience, which he captures through vivid and surreal imagery.

Gina Choy (aka Georgina Hooper) is an Australian artist based on the Sunshine Coast. Primarily a painter, cross cultural fertilization is at the heart of Gina Choy’s practice. She is informed by a deep engagement with Eastern artistic traditions and visual language and the philosophies that underpin them.

Kior is a digital artist based in Korea. She likes to unfold the stories going on in human minds in the language of visuals and is fascinated by making artwork that gives visual delights.

Alex Mack is a photographer and mixed-media artist living in British Columbia, Canada. As an avid mountain and outdoor enthusiast, her art seeks to provide a unique lens into a world of “outer peace”.

Ricardo Cavolo (Spain). His eclectic style comes from his relationships with folk art, traditional tattoo culture, European medieval imagery, and the tribal arts. Cavolo’s art is all about stories, characters, and their experiences across time. Utilizing art as a complex narrative, Cavolo often focuses on portraiture. These depictions propel protagonists to champion their unique tales. Referencing historical and fictional illustrations, his use of symmetry and symbolism connects to a modern and playful audience.

Eileen Begley has been creating and exhibiting art for more than three decades in the Bay Area with work including large scale painting & drawing, printmaking, fiber arts. Her current work in photography explores intimacy and quiet reflection in a chaotic world.

Eghosa Omoruyi, also known as TobyDphotographer, is a fine art photographer whose art involves modernizing the Renaissance blurring the line between a photograph and a painting.

Magda Americangangsta is a multidisciplinary 1/1 artist working in a variety of contemporary mixed media, paint, collage, illustration and photography. She loves to break the boundaries between different visual art forms.

Magda exhibits in New York, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Dubai, Liverpool, Paris and Warsaw. Her physical collages are showcased in homes all over the world. In life, she is guided by the principle that hedonism is the sweetest form of bondage. She believes in crazy dreaming, and that complaining takes you far away from your goals.

Jack Prettyman, also known as jprittee, is a designer & 3D illustrator on a mission to spread joy with his art. Jack's iconic style comes to life through colorful, glass-like sculptures that tell stories of the strength and beauty in vulnerability.

Jack's passion for curation and supporting fellow artists has culminated in the creation of this Floraculture exhibition series designed to celebrate floral fanatics from around the world.

Foreword by:

Tina Survilla Lindell is a sociolinguist, writer, and curator based out of New York City. Inspired by her Filipino-American upbringing abroad, much of her writing focuses on themes of identity, intimacy, and culture. As an avid urban birder and aspiring naturalist, she has been previously profiled and featured on the cover of Birding Magazine.