Flowering Phantasm

Flowering Phantasm

Clay Dorse Odom

This work of art is everything and nothing. In one and the same time. It is a representation of nature as a technological super organism. After all, why would nature want to be just one thing in the future? If nature and technology have to work together in the near future, to survive, it’s logical that new, fluid intermediate, nature-technology forms will emerge. A carnivorous plant is just doing its best to survive, so why can’t it become a rootless flower, free to seek out a new spot in nature?
A super organism could turn out to be a crazy chameleon. And perhaps that is the most beautiful possibility to be expected from our incomprehension of nature.

Flowering Phantasm was presented in collaboration with Light Art Collection. Photography: Clemens Wildschut

About the artist

About the artist

Clay Dorse Odom is Interior Design Program assistant professor at The University of Texas School of Architecture. He is founder of Studio MODO, a design studio in Austin, Texas, which specialises in design research and material use research.