Continuum, a book cataloguing his practice's work, explains that Z15's elegant concave shape was inspired by traditional Chinese wine vessels, bamboo-weaving and sky lanterns, not to mention "the freshness and beauty of flourishing lotus flowers".
Philosophy focused on China in a cartoon-book way, sending out a "Hi Shanghai!" flourish of flower prints, topped off with conical hats.
This might sound familiar if you saw his 2012 Sydney Biennale exhibit, Ocean of Flowers (2012), but Hongbo says this update is built upon a deep relationship with SCAD: "The historical building together with this contemporary look makes people think about the lifespan of a flower, flourishing shortly, and of steel, which lasts much longer," he explains to The Creators Project.
Inspired by an ancient civilisation and by the Italian landscape ("Over the Campagna / As far as I can see / The farms flourish like flowers / And the confident olive / Whispers how civilised / Man and landscape can be"), he produced what many critics thought his finest poetry.
Rapeseed plants normally have flourishing leaves, pods, flowers and other above-ground green tissues, but their seeds are often only partially filled, probably because most of the photosynthetic products are stored in flowers and pods, rather than seeds.
There is a flourishing community of British flower growers doing the same thing.
Herbs and squash pop up in the flower beds edging the house; more tomatoes were started in a raised bed that her dad improvised from a neighbor's recycled soybean seed bag; she grows flowers and peppers at her grandmother's house next door; more flowers are flourishing outside her two rabbit barns.
Some scholars hold that Persephone's time belowground represents the summer months, when Greek fields are parched and bare, but the Hymn to Demeter, the earliest source for the myth, states explicitly that Persephone returns when the spring flowers are flourishing (line 401).
She crunched across the pebbly ground of her vegetable plot, where tomatoes, eggplants, sweet and hot peppers, lettuce and squash, to say nothing of a river of herbs and flowers, are flourishing in a strange soil mix covering about 700 square feet of the roof of a 1902 town house at 149 East 38th Street in Manhattan.
