Dandelion/ Pissenlit.

The dandelion or French ‘pissenlit’, is a symbol for society where we dismantle our systems of knowledge, the literal and metaphoric ‘weeding out’ of ideas and practices. In health and disease, dandelions were once useful and familiar, now we define them as a weed, a wild plant growing unwanted and in competition with other cultivated plants. Nature also reflects in dandelions a paradox, where we praise resilience but often struggle with the way in which it is presented to us. The form of a dandelion is however lightweight and delicate, in contrast with how we view resilience being solid and dense, this makes the plant an interesting subject to deconstruct and reinterpret.