Built from the shared visual language of flags — stripes, blocks, crosses, circles, and signal forms — the works draw on systems designed to convey identity, instruction, or meaning across distance.

Historically, national flags have been used to mark territory, assert ownership, and define borders, while nautical flags developed as coded systems for communication at sea, enabling vessels to exchange information through colour and pattern alone. Though their purposes differ, both rely on simplified geometric structures intended to remain clear, fixed, and universally recognisable.

By reconstructing these visual codes from pressed flowers, the work places impermanent natural materials within structures typically associated with clarity, permanence, and control. The flowers are hand-collected and pressed using slow, traditional methods, preserving their colour and form while allowing subtle change to continue over time. Their organic variation softens the precision of the flag compositions, introducing texture, memory, and natural change into what are normally rigid symbolic systems.

In this context, the flags shift from instruments of authority or instruction to reflections on place, connection, and the evolving relationship between nature and the systems humans create to organise and communicate within the world.