Annelie Berner's artwork, Plant Futures, uses flowers as a metaphor to illustrate the effects of climate change. The project explores how flowers adapt to their environments and how their characteristics—size, color, and form—are influenced by climate conditions. By utilizing sensors to gather data on weather factors like temperature and rainfall, the flowers visually embody climate data. This innovative approach not only highlights the relationship between the natural world and climate change but also prompts a reflection on how our surroundings may transform in the future due to these shifts.
Plant Futures envisions how a flower might show climate data, data that could eventually shape our familiar surroundings into something entirely new.
Looking at just one flower, what does it need to survive and how might those needs be impacted by future climates?
The variance in size, petals, color, even veins can be traced to that month's temperature, rain, storms, which is in turn traced by sensors and compiled as data.
Thus a flower represents, in and of itself, its surroundings as well as the broader climate.
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