Abstract

A feminist approach to plant life involves the dismantling of conventional constructs and habits that do not treat everyone and everything fairly and equally. This is relevant to the expression of the water lily because it does not have any unequal or unfair habits in its natural behaviour. It has been hailed by humans as a symbol of female fertility, as a bride-like figure. This paper seeks to retrieve the water lily from its historical cultural role and re-present and re-express it as an independent being in a world where agency is multiple, communal and communicative. This will involve both an aesthetic, agriculture and plant biology approach, focusing on the ambiguous concept of mobility.Water lilies flourish...