Putnam Flowers | Past Threads, Future Calm
Two large botanical tapestries rise among the orange trees of the city’s most important courtyard. Woven from cereals, flowers, fruits, and other botanical materials, the installation evokes the geometric and organic motifs typical of Islamic art and plays with the palette of colours that characterises Córdoba’s Mosque-Cathedral.
Each tapestry is at once an homage and a warning: faced with a world rushing forward at overwhelming speed, the work proposes a gesture of slowness, serenity, and mindful attention. The vegetal threads, ephemeral and fragile, thus become acts of memory—an invitation to pause, to reconnect with transcendence, and with the essence of what it means to be human.
Far from being a mere ornament, this piece calls for a different future, one woven patiently and serenely. A reminder that the future can still be built from delicacy and hope.
“The world is barreling forward, faster than our hearts were made to bear. In this race for more we’re trading away the very things that tether us to our own humanity.”
Michael Putnam
Metalwork: El Arcángel Industrias Metálicas
