A microphone is used to sense loud disturbances (more specifically, the abrupt opening or closing of a door) for the flowers to react to. As an aesthetic choice, I did not try to make the flowers as realistic as possible (e.g. using fake flower arrangements), to make them more eye-catching when they react. The flowers’ movement in response to sound mimics the same reaction people have to someone entering their space. For example, if a student is studying in a quiet room and a person walks into the room, his or her head will automatically turn towards the disturbance. To reproduce the same effect, the flowers swing to face the noise, startled. To further anthropomorphize the flowers, they quickly shudder as if shaking their heads in disapproval.

Overall, I wanted to design an art piece that made people conscious of the fact that they actively affect the environment they encounter.