Photos from “Bloom” a site-specific installation by...

Photos from “Bloom” a site-specific installation by Anna Schuleit.

In Schuleit’s own words:

“Bloom was an idea for creating a tribute to the historic building of Mass Mental — that is, an entity of a creative work, guided by the fact that Mass Mental itself is a whole with connected limbs, busy centers, quiet ends, wings, nooks, and crannies, and nonetheless a living, moving whole.

In November of 2003 thousands of flowers were placed in the old hallways, rooms, and staircases to mark the worn traffic-ways and memories of the site. Each hallway had a different type of flower. Each was a different stretch of color. The axes of the building, its dizzying historic layout, were recognized individually.”