"Speak your mind or you will be ignored. React to the world around you, or disappear into the darkness. Stand mute and become irrelevant and without hope."

Flowers of Pain is an artwork by John Sanborn released as part of Intimate Archeology collection.

Intimate Archeology is a selection from a series of 60 works created by John Sanborn with Sarah Cecelia Bukowsky, his long-time collaborator. They have a learned history of intentions, gestures, and desires, and together they have created their own reality aided by lidar and photometric scanning to produce a choreography of distortion rendered into 3D objects. The process evolved in real-time, prompted by written scenarios and initiated by the movement of Bukowsky’s body in synchronicity with Sanborn’s camera.