A couple of years ago I found a book about paper flowers and then one day I thought I had that book and why don’t I do anything with it? So so I started making flowers according to what the book told me to do and then after I had done that for a couple of months I had a big bouquet of roses, but then I thought you know we have to get weird and then I started making things in crazy colors and I invented flowers that don’t exist – and actually that’s an awful lot of fun to do much more fun than and the rules you see according to a book.
I made flowers and then I photographed them to see what it looked like through a camera. They became strange and mysterious, and I thought more exciting – I got a huge reaction everybody that saw the photographs, along the lines of “who took those pictures, what are those?” Even people who deal professionally with flowers and plants were bowled over with the photographs, for instance the pitcher plants I made.
The pictures of the flowers as photographs makes them completely different from the real thing, so I made a few thousand photographs of the flowers, and sort of distilled it down and suddenly I had a small book my husband made, and supplied names for flowers which didn’t exist.
It was a lot of fun in the making, and I hope the reader enjoys them as much as I do.
Leo Busscher
