Selected work

1000 Flowers

A garden grown from seeds collected from one thousand different plants.
Year2017
MaterialsSoil and seeds from 1,000 plant species
ContextFundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Curated byMartina Millà Bernad
BotanistCarles Burguera
PhotographyRoberto Ruiz
1000 Flowers

Starting from the idea of mil flors honey — a honey made from the pollen of many different plant species — I asked botanist Carles Burguera to spend six months collecting seeds from one thousand different plants.

The seeds were sown in a plot in front of Fundació Joan Miró. More than 250 species germinated and coexisted there for approximately a year, while the garden’s growth and transformations were followed.

The handwritten list of the thousand plants forms part of the project as a record of collection, classification and possibility.