{"id":3913,"date":"2024-12-03T10:33:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:41:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:41:37","slug":"uprooted-a-book-of-levitating-flowers-other-fashionable-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rimbooks.com\/wordpress\/uprooted-a-book-of-levitating-flowers-other-fashionable-nonsense","title":{"rendered":"Uprooted: a handbook of levitating flowers and other fashionable nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Uprooted: a handbook of levitating flowers and other fashionable nonsense<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong>
by Fiona Lascelles<\/p>\n\n\n

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What if… the internet was soil, what flowers would grow?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A speculative piece of fiction that is part photography, is definitely sci-fi, could be used as a handbook, recants the ordeals of a 1950s plant breeder who grows species given to her from travellers to outer space (found on Wikicommons), performs acts of flower propagation via the active nourishment of words and contains magician\u2019s coding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uprooted is a ramble across multiple worlds both real and imagined. At its core a reframing of plant taxonomy from a poetic perspective, entertaining the notion that a poetic understanding of the world is as viable a convention as one of argument and reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A process condensing research and readings, visual exploration, observation, curation and creating connections, play and critique; Ursula le Gruin refers to this as composting, a fitting analogy for the creative process. In the end the work became more than poetic fancy, rather a handbook of provocation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uprooted is a reflection on what philosopher Donna Harraway would see as a statement on the blurring of species identity politics. The accompanying texts and quotes throughout the book affirm the problem of the hierarchy of being: machine over plant, human over machine. Here, the plant speaks back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concept, design, production \/\/ Fiona Lascelles<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography \/\/ Fiona Lascelles
AI images created using personal photographs in midjourney and re-edited\/composed in Photoshop.
Coding created in codepal.ai and edited.
AI plant names initially generated in fantasynamegenerators.com and re-edited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Winner of Gold in Print \/ Books IDA Design Awards 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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170 x 240mm
94 pages
Text \/\/ Eco 100% recycled 115gsm
Cover \/\/ Screen printed one colour Colorplan Bitter Chocolate 270gsm
End Papers \/\/ Eco 100% Recycled 135gsm
Printing \/\/ Crucial Colour, Auckland, New Zealand
Perfect bound (handbound) \/\/ The Binding Studio, Auckland<\/p>\n

Published \/\/ back_space_books
Edition of 50<\/p>\n

ISBN 978-0-473-73488-6<\/p>\n

RRP $80<\/p>\n\n\n

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What if… the internet was soil, what flowers would grow?<\/p>\n

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