Flower Performance.

It was my first year at QUT (2003) and I had just moved from the country. I was doing a semester on performance art and I missed the plant life so I had an idea to dress up as a flower and plant myself in a pot for a day as a piece for my uni course. I ended up doing it over 2 days for about four hours at a time. The first time I was set up in the middle of the uni, the other time was in the city at the west end of the mall. I had watering cans full of water for passersby to water me at will. I also had a friend of mine come to be 'my gardner'/security - to gently encourage people to water me, and fill up the water cans, and 'weed me'. If people didn't water me for a while I went all droopy. People were really lovely. One girl watered me in my mouth and some people watered into the pot where my feet were. My feet were covered in soil up to my ankles. Some people walked around me and watered bits of my skirt or my arms/leaves. I made the petals and leaves of my costume out of placemats and paint. I think it was generally intended as a fun event.
As a side-performance I had planted seedlings around the city in different spots - at the end of alleyways, behind shops, in driveways, carparks. I got soil and planted little seedlings of random flowers that were in season. At my flower-pot performance I had some flyers telling people what I was doing with a map so people could go and have a look on the progress of the seedlings I was trying to grow. I'd go in and check on them every 2 or 3 days with water and fresh soil. The people in a cafe around the corner from one batch used to call me the 'green fairy'. Some flowers were doing really good but they were near a downpipe and they got washed away during a big downpour.