Throughout the winter and spring of 2021/22, Honeyscribe worked deep within the rural communities of North and West Devon addressing the complex realities of social isolation, loss and grief for the people living around Okehampton and Holsworthy.

 

Working with the Mobile Library service, Okehampton and Holsworthy Libraries and a host of local support agencies and community groups, we invited people to press and dedicate flowers to people they miss in a quiet collective act of co-creation.

 

Rekindling the old-fashioned practice of pressing flowers in books as a way of preserving memories, we repurposed old library stock as presses and explored how the exchange of pressed flowers via the post might offer a positive way to help people process and express feelings of loss or grief and feel connected during the dark winter days - particularly those who are most vulnerable, isolated and digitally disconnected.

 

The project will culminate in the creation of a florilegium artwork created from a bouquet of preserved flowers gathered from the community.  ​