five nine

Television Flowers is a collection of photographs by Christopher Brown. From 2016 - 2018, 'CB' kept a three megapixel digital camera, the same quality of the average security camera, near his television set, picking it up to shoot any time he saw flowers on the screen. The resulting collection is a psychedelic whorl of smeared color and grain, a surveillance of nature's broadcast that calls to mind both humankind's reverence of nature and distance from it.

Includes supplemental texts by author/artist Jamey Marie Braden.

Television Flowers: 7" x 9" // 64 pages
Supplement: 5" x 6.5" // 6 pages

"Chance went inside and turned on the TV. The set created its own light, its own color, its own time. It did not follow the law of gravity that forever bent all plants downward. Everything on TV was tangled and mixed and yet smoothed out: night and day, big and small, tough and brittle, soft and rough, hot and cold, far and near. In this colored world of television, gardening was the white cane of a blind man."
- Jerzy Kosinski, Being There

"I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just the practical thing. That's why our TVs are rectangles. Even in modern architecture, they want us to believe, "That's the nicest, most beautiful thing." ...but actually it's that they cannot afford amorphous shapes or ornaments.
- Pipilotti Rist, Interview Magazine