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Stop and Smell the Flowers
Danai Tembo
“Stop and smell the Flowers” is a polaroid photographs perched on These disturbing sights and smells
sculptural work representing a wire stems. The work was inspired were overwhelming reminders of
bouquet of flowers in a vase. It is by Danai Tembo’s strong reaction to human consumptive behaviour, and
made from waste materials (plastic, her experience of the wastewater yet Danai still saw so much beauty
paper, tin cans, foil wrappers) and treatment works and all the trash all around her on the pilgrimage,
the “flowers” are represented by encountered during the pilgrimage. which she captured in polaroid.
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