Color Them Amused
Go ahead, take one. Or wait. Maybe they belong to someone? And just what are a bunch of $3-a-stem Gerbera daisies doing arranged in a glass case next to the public shower at Muscle Beach in Venice, California, anyway? Those are the kinds of thoughts Amely Spoetzl hopes will run through your mind when you encounter the help-yourself flower dispensers in her installation, "Just a Moment, Please." The Germany-based artist launched the project in L.A. in 2009 and has reproduced it in Taipei and Berlin. "Thanks to the flowers," says Spoetzl, who will take her blooms to Paris this June, "the identity of a location and its protagonists will be changed -- maybe even, for an instant, invented anew."