“BLOOM in progress” is the next step of Melina Mosland’s degree exhibition. The basic project is a visual fairy tale, a collage between the perfect human body and the perfect vegetation . Based on botanical illustrations of the 17th and 18th century where the plants were visualized in their best possible state and were combined with images of perfectly s haped 3d anatomy bodies . Inspired by the ancient myths of Daphne, Adonis and Narcissus where people are turned into plants and also by examples from literature where plants are given human characteristics, as happens in “Alice in Wonderland” and the death of the main character of Kahitsi’s novel Exostis, who decides to die alone in his mansion, from asphyxia caused by the tropical plants of a jungle that literally covers the house and him. Vegetation can easily symbolize abandonment and decay and at the same time bloom regeneration and life. So the figures in this project can be seen as human bodies lost under the vegetation or as hybrid creatures of a fairy tale. This project aims to create a path between materials , the creative procedure of art and the artistic outcome . It will focus on the importance of this procedure and it will be based on the multiple steps an artist has to take from one artwork to another. The question that remains is “when a material ever stops being a material and becomes an artwork and the opposite, when an artwork becomes material”.

 The main part of the project is the interaction of the audience with where a main sculpture is set in the gallery, surrounded by other smaller sculptures . The audience is called to place them as they want on the big sculpture, in order to create a central art piece by the artist in collaboration with them.