2016

I am Pollen #2

 I am Pollen  by Kassandra Bossell 2017 St Margarets Church of Art, Norfolk UK installation view
I am Pollen ,  2017,  St Margarets Church of Art, Norfolk UK,  installation view

Whizzing, whizzing through the air I’ve left the anther to fly sky high sucked up by a monstrously large bee. My waxy spikes kept my precious sperm safe on the anther but now we’re flying I know not where.

Ahhh, I’ve landed on something beautiful – maybe a pistil, maybe a female cone, I can’t tell. I am so excited I put two sperm cells straight into her ovule… ahh home at last, the revered female gametophyte.

I am Pollen by Kassandra Bossell   installation view
I am Pollen,  installation view
I am Pollen by Kassandra Bossell 2017 St Margarets Church of Art, Norfolk UK installation view
I am Pollen,  2017,  St Margarets Church of Art, Norfolk UK,  installation view

But watch, watch out, there might be insects here, or palnivore mites, it’s so dangerous. Oh I wish now I had hopped over to my mother flower’s stigma and self- pollinated, but it’s too late, the bee sucked me up into his deadly flight and now it’s too late. Watch out, watch out for the pollen-eating insects. Will I survive?

Photographic prints, fishing line, fishing tackle, 74cm diameter
Stokholm Independent Art Fair, Sweden