{"product_id":"dream-blossom-xxxvii-2025","title":"Dream Blossom XXXVII, 2025","description":"\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI come back to the blossom year after year. They just do something to me, they are so perfect and transient and yes, poignant  - I was reminded the other day about a few lines in an interview I did with \u003cem\u003eAnOther\u003c\/em\u003e regarding a publication I made in 2024 called \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sorika.com\/collections\/all\/products\/the-stop\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stop\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e where along side a specially commissioned text by Iphgenia Baal I juxtaposed blossom works with redacted portraits of young people protesting at the Stop the War in Iraq march in 2003. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When I first looked at [the photographs], those kids were in their full bloom, it’s such a transient moment. All the flowers pictured in the book are cherry blossoms, which is a well-noted embodiment of mortality, it symbolises both life and death, beauty and violence. So I suppose it was just a kind of mirroring of that life cycle, that hopefully we all have the chance to bloom and to wilt and to fall from the branch and go back into the eternal cycle. But to be able to fulfil that cycle is a great privilege..”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese newly available framed works are priced low not because I think they are without value, they are priced low as I would like them to be reasonably accessible so that they may get out into the world and on some walls. Get one of these up there as a reminder that despite it all the world is full of wonder and that if you have money to spend on a piece of printed paper in some metal and glass you are one of the lucky ones, and that even with that luck that this is over quick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAlthough this item is an open edition it may only be available for a short time. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sorika","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57608999731574,"sku":null,"price":350.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/7829\/5764\/files\/Dream-Blossom-XXXVII-2026-Gareth-McConnell-001.jpg?v=1775227026","url":"https:\/\/sorika.com\/products\/dream-blossom-xxxvii-2025","provider":"Sorika","version":"1.0","type":"link"}