“Every year once the dandelions finish flowering, and the seed heads open, we pick the fluffy seeds. Then we glue these onto LEDs. The seed head which holds the individual seeds is the same size as the LED: so they fit perfectly. They become interchangeable. The LED dandelions will light up in a 3D circuit board which in fact has no board and is only a circuit. This allows to connect one element to the next similar element, allowing us to build entire installations like this. In a sort of perpetual overgrowth. A discovery we made with Fragile Future was that those natural seeds connect so perfectly to electronics that they suddenly didn’t seem from totally different worlds anymore. While I used to view technology as nature’s enemy this completely dissolved that notion and found a balance between them. And that is what Fragile Future is all about.”
—Lonneke Gordijn, Studio Drift
