The Junction - Public Art Commision

The Lovely Flowers

The blooms that grow and die all around us provide beauty and inspiration and are often sought as a guide to the destiny of loves and relationships. Petals are torn and thrown to the wind and the messages are anxiously read. The flower as a totem of chance now arrives for the txt generation, with electronic illuminated flowers on the piazza in front of The Junction, providing sage guidance for the lovelorn and the hopeful.

The three lovely flowers are large metal structures with the petals formed from eight x 750mm LED text displays, around a central multi-coloured LED centre mounted on high steel columns.
The three large flowers will be labeled 'FAITH', 'HOPE' and 'CHARITY' and each will offer a response to the world of love and lust according to these gracious principles.

FAITH - is a flower that recognises trust and seeks to support it by receiving and replaying confidences from around the world.
This flower hunts the internet for sentences that contain the words 'I Love you' and when someone steps in front of the flower a PIR is triggered and a sentence is searched, captured and momentarily displayed.

HOPE - is a flower that recognises that we cannot know our fate, beyond hoping for the best and presents us with a simple testimony of love.

When the visitor stops in front of this flower a PIR sensor is triggered and the flower petals pulse with the text 'loves me' and 'loves me not'. After a few seconds the flower decides your fate and displays it.

CHARITY - is a flower that is generous, a perennial bloomer that cannot do anything but offer us tokens of love that we can cherish and carry with us on our way.

When the visitor stops in front of this flower a PIR sensor is triggered and the petals pulse through a sequence of 'Love Heart' compliments. These compliments will be worked up with local people and be selected from a database. After a few seconds the flower offers you a token of its esteem.

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