Flowers

Dear ETH Zurich,

Please accept these flowers as a token of my appreciation for the opportunity to collaborate with you. For our exchange, I would like to invite you to consider flowers. What is your relationship with flowers? What are your earliest memories of flowers? What are your favorite memories of flowers? Have you ever represented flowers in your work? Have you grown them? Have you cut them to put in a vase or give as a gift? Have you bought them? Have you given them to someone to show your love? Do you like arranging them? Do certain flowers have specific meaning for you? What do flowers represent to you?

I would love to learn about your relationship with flowers and about the flowers in Zurich. If you would like to share, please feel free to do so in any way that is best for you. By sharing your feelings about flowers, you might find that your relationship with flowers and yourself changes.

On this webpage, you will find:

A picture of my arm under flower embroidered lace
A watercolor of a Sally Holmes rose that I accidentally tore
All of the instax square photographs that I have taken of flowers since January of 2018
A short poem about flowers
My friend and I Identifying flowers while exploring Round Grove Creek in Kansas City, Missouri, United States
A lilac bush at Dunn Ranch Prairie, Missouri, United States
Pictures from a day trip to the Greensboro Arboretum, North Carolina, United States

I look forward to hearing from you. Maybe one day I can come to Zurich, and we can smell the flowers together.

Warmly,

David Alpert