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Flowers for Glissant’s ‘The Black Beach’ — with Bella Meyer — Arranging flowers for Édouard Glissant’s narrative essay The Black Beach, a short text that makes up a chapter of his book, The Poetics of Relation.

Joined by Bella Meyer, florist, and creator of fleursBella

fleursBella is a floral studio dedicated to using flowers and other forms of growth to create connections between people and interpret the stories embedded in other forms of art. Mixing seasonal and market flowers with foraged materials, mosses, bark, and fungi, fleursBella has become known for its ways of looking for beauty in an expansive view of nature, ephemera, and growth.

In addition to arranging for cultural institutions, personal events, and restaurants, the flower studio in the east village of Manhattan doubles as an educational space, hosting classes in flower design, as well as a stage for interdisciplinary performances and parties.

Bella Meyer created fleursBella in 2005. She started working with natural materials in 1992, making chuppahs from found birch tree branches. Some years later she had her first invitation by a major arts institution, Brooklyn Academy of Music, to create large scale arrangements in response to their dance and theatre program. To her, arranging is just another form of storytelling, a continuation of her earlier work making puppets, costume design and her education studying the history of an esoteric figure that populates the capital of columns in many medieval churches, the Atlante figure; the smallest and meekest at the floral crown of the column, bearing the load of the building and symbolically our larger world.

https://www.fleursbella.com/about

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First broadcast on Montez Press Radio as Tongue and Cheek- Ep38: Flowers for Glissant’s ‘The Black Beach’ — with Bella Meyer — Saturday, September 24th, 2022 1-2PM