Margaret Jacobs

Bouquets for a New Era:

My work in general creates objects that showcase botanicals which hold cultural, personal and familial importance. I have found that my lifestyle has become more dependent on the land due to my recent relocation into a rural and agricultural community. My personal value systems have become more focused on the environment and how it gives us what we need to survive.

My Bouquets for a New Era series is the start to a new body of work that is centered around Indigenous plant knowledge value systems. Flower bouquets are often given for special occasions and I wanted to explore how the meaning changes when the more customary florals are swapped out with culturally and personally important botanicals and plants.

Overall, I want to put a lens on what we value as important and have the viewer examine their own relationship to plants, the land and their own personal value systems.