All these grand, exotic orchids I’ve been posting throughout April are truly spectacular. However, the richness of nature being what it is, beauty can also be found in the lowliest of weeds. This was evidenced in a sparkling piece called ‘Dandelion’ by collaborators Sennep and Yoke. Their work featured amongst that of a plethora of fascinating digital and interactive artists in the V&A’s recent exhibition ‘Decode-Digital Design Sensations’.
Now looking back at this digital imagery of a dandelion Taraxacum being blown in the wind I can’t help but marvel at the redemptive power of weeds in our lives. So why should weeds be beautiful? Perhaps because they bring us back to earth, provide us with honest labor in ‘weeding’ and trimming, and when they are properly tended enable us to enjoy the magnificently beautiful, or delicious; depending on the other plants one has planted in the garden. And there’s also this, that “they hold top-soil, pull up water and nutrients, provide food, (and) help control insects.”
It might even be said that weeds serve a redemptive purpose in our lives; “For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or comeliness that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men…surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows…and with his stripes we are healed.”Isa 53:2-5
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digital dandelion by sennep/yoke from matylda krzykowski on Vimeo.
