“From humanity’s earliest recorded histories, the flower has served an intimate, sensual, and visceral role as a subject of allegorical meaning. Florals have long ornamented and bloomed across fundamental aspects of life as expressions of mourning, growth, remembrance, love, beauty, ritual, and resistance. In the inverse, flowers have at times been coded as shallow tokens of adornment or decay. Their uses and representations span time, place, and culture, in many ways forming a familiar and unifying grammar that connects human experience across its myriad conditions.” The Floral Impulse features the work of over 25 artists working in a variety of mediums and will be on view at David Castillo through January 28, 2023. Link in bio to learn more about this exhibition. Installation photography by Zachary Balber.