The Secret Life of Flowers
In The Secret Life of Flowers, Julieta Tarraubella uses security cameras to watch flowers.
She films them from the moment the bud opens until the flower fades and dies. You can see how the flowers grow, bloom, and slowly disappear. Tarraubella uses a closed camera system—that means cameras that record everything in one space, often used for safety. But here it becomes a way to carefully observe nature. That makes the work both beautiful and a little uncomfortable. Her work shows what happens when we look at nature through machines: time feels different, beauty is saved as data, and even quiet things are no longer private. Tarraubella shows how technology can change how we see and feel nature—even something as simple as a flower.
