an inexhaustive list of flower motifs

• to a raven and hurricanes that from unknown places bring back smells of humans in love by petrit halilaj +
• the flowers stand silently, witnessing (2024, dir. theo panagopoulos)
  • filmmaker interview: image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence +
• voyage - zoë më
  • you'll understand one day that flowers are more beautiful when you water them
• mona sugata’s botanical sculptures from cotton
  • tree of life - a planet of playing beings 遊ぶ生命たちの星 - (2025 solo exhibition) +

some fascinating articles.

• linguistic relativity
• list of paradoxes
• list of plants with symbolism
• nature versus nurture
• outline of knowledge
• rabbits and hares in art

— to read.

• exophony: voyages outside the mother tongue - yoko tawada
• the trees witness everything - victoria chang
• 膜 / the membranes - 紀大偉
• one day, everyone will have always been against this - omar el akkad
• against disappearance: essays on memory - ed. leah jing mcintosh and adolfo aranjuez
• the memory police - yoko ogawa

— to watch.

• and so we put goldfish in the pool (2017, dir. makoto nagahisa)

— to listen.

• 泡沫の夢は幻に (the dream of bubbles is an illusion)— atarayo
• luminescent creatures — ichiko aoba

“make your life the first life that you save.”

── likes. photography, tea, lepidoptera, sumikkogurashi, commonplace books, existentialism, wildflowers, literature, lace accents, critical media analyses, kaomojis, studio ghibli films, the golden hour, having niche passions, patchworks, clouds

── dislikes. false dichotomies, toxic optimism, overly sweet tea, monotony, pseudoscience, listening to my own voice, anti-intellectualism, conservative ideology

• canadian golden maple tea
• dancong orchid vanilla tea
• glow superblend by twinings: green tea, strawberry, cucumber, aloe vera
• lavender grey by clipper tea co.: pure ceylon black tea, lavender buds, earl grey, lemon
• rose and jasmine tea from chinese medicine shop
• vietnamese cocoa tea: crushed cocoa beans
• waterfruit green tea by twg tea: green tea, pomegranate, apple, pineapple
• 四季春 (taiwanese four seasons spring oolong)
• 生津水：lily, snow pear, fig, almond, bamboo, ladybell root

• abeyance: a state of temporary disuse or suspension
• apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute, denoting reasoning from self-evidently true propositions
• bucolic: pastoral
• calefaction: the act of heating
• controvert: to deny the truth of
• obloquy: strong public condemnation
• obviate: to remove a need, or to prevent something undesirable
• octothorpe: technical term for hash symbol
• parochial: having a limited or narrow outlook or scope
• phenology: the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena, especially in relation to climate and plant and animal life
• philamot: (obsolete) brownish-orange reminiscent of autumn foliage

prompts (to work on eventually)

created by me

• analogue: botanica ‎♪
  • open fields, overgrown concrete, static, the juxtaposition of nature against technology, pareidolia, learning to live
• sea foam: ambient, instrumental ♪
  • seaside towns, wind chimes, acoustic instruments, daydreaming, effervescence
• fairy ring: whimsical folk ♪
  • dandelion crowns, dew on spider webs, clockwork, storytelling and oral histories
• dream within a dream: ballads, city pop ♪
  • the sky at twilight, street lamps, whispered promises, motion blur, sleepless nights

a list of songs I like and their corresponding pantone colours ☆ long and improperly organised

• black hole - younha • 19-3951 clematis blue
• bonvoyage - dreamcatcher • 18-0416 terrarium moss
• heart of the woods (ending theme) - in love with a ghost ft. ukuletea • 12-5204 morning mist
• sunset glow - gye0m • 13-1404 pale dogwood
• the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy - artms • 18-3120 willowherb
• unfold - porter robinson • 14-4206 pearl blue
• utopiosphere - mili • 15-4008 blue fog
• 花に雨を、君に歌を - the binary • 17-3930 jacaranda

floriography note. messages to myself, encoded in petals

dictionaries: victorian henrietta dumont ∘ kate greenaway ∘ dale harvey

eglantine rosa rubiginosa: talent, poetry, I wound to heal

cherry blossom prunus subg. cerasus: the ephemeral nature of life, renewal (hanakotoba)

hazel genus corylus reconciliation, inspiration, knowledge

camomile chamaemelum nobile may all your dreams and wishes be fulfilled, energy in adversity

baby blue eyes genus nemophila transformation, healing, achievement, forgiveness (hanakotoba)