Artist Journal - im plant - June 1999 - © Lloyd Godman - The surrogate, the human, the remains. Tallandsia installation. Tableau Vivant  

I remember reading a passage in the Orchid Thief - which later formed the script for the movie Adaptation - where the skull of an orchid hunter was found with a rare orchid attached and growing on it. It appears that he had perished in pursuit of the very thing that was now growing on his bones. Even more ironic was that the sale of the plant back in England created more excitement and fetched a higher price still attached to the unfortunate man's brain cap. Bromeliads are closely associated to orchids and I imagined them - particularly Tilladnsias - attached to humans, bone etc. From the Lift work, I also imagined the plants attaching them selves to people riding in the lift from floor to floor.

In an age of GM and body implants its possible plants could outlive the body they might be attached to.