Perhaps no shop reflects our modern way of life more vividly than a flower shop (like the one I came by in the city of Strausberg a few days ago).
Those flowers are natural and unnatural simultaneously, beautiful and weird.
Flowers naturally grow in meadows. We can look at them and pick them up at certain times in certain places. In flower shops, however, flowers are always available and in great variety.
We no longer have to go to the flowers, the flowers have come to us.
Our desire for flowers has created business models that ensure the unlimited availability of flowers. We buy flowers, put them in our living rooms and bring a piece of nature into our homes.
At least, we think so.
Cause how natural is flower production? How natural are the cultivation, the transport, and the sale?
Isn't it just a self-constructed idea of nature that we put in a vase on our tables?