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Australia: Melbourne Market growers provide flowers to museum

Flowers from growers at Melbourne Market in Epping will be given as gifts between strangers on the streets of Melbourne as part of a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei’s The Moving Garden invites audience participation.

“In this project I present a space with beautiful, fresh flowers,” Lee said.

“Museum guests are invited to take one of these flowers with them when they leave the museum, if they will agree to do two things: first, to make a detour from their intended route when leaving the museum for their next destination; second, along this detour give the flower to a stranger who they feel would benefit from this unexpected act of generosity.”

Melbourne florist Flowers Vasette has joined Melbourne Market growers and the NGV to make this possible by providing 1000 fresh flowers for each of the 106 days of the exhibition, totalling 106,000 flowers.

Read more at heraldsun.com.au
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