Just submitted to the FLORA Museum Archive Challenge! 🌿 I built Virtual Flora Museum

Just submitted to the FLORA Museum Archive Challenge! 🌿 I built Virtual Flora Museum - Exhibit H...Just submitted to the FLORA Museum Archive Challenge! 🌿 I built Virtual Flora Museum - Exhibit H...

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Felix John

• 1d

Just submitted to the FLORA Museum Archive Challenge! 🌿

I built Virtual Flora Museum - Exhibit Hall 02, a digital museum for Rare & Endangered Plants featuring Welwitschia, Titan Arum and interactive archive walls.

Built with FLORA. Check Entry 1! #floramuseumchallenge

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• Sep 1

📌 Watermark on your FLORA exports? Here's the fix.

The FLORA watermark comes from the free plan. Everyone in this challenge gets $50 in free FLORA usage, and claiming it upgrades your account so your exports come out clean.

For details on how to redeem, check the challenge guidelines or the confirmation email Contra sent when you joined the challenge for instructions (check spam if you don't see it). Already submitted something watermarked? Claim the credits, re-export, and update your entry. Happy curating! 🌸

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Kemzy Kemzy

• Sep 3

Behind the scenes of my #floramuseumchallenge entry 🎨

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Bella Brillantes

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• Sep 2

The Lover’s Eye was never just a portrait. It was a portrait of a gaze. The art of looking back.

For the #FLORAMuseumChallenge, I chose the 19th-century Lover’s Eye Bracelet, an intimate object featuring a miniature of a loved one’s eye. Pieces like these were worn close to the body so the wearer could imagine their beloved’s gaze resting upon them 👁️

That idea became my creative starting point: what if the gaze that we see in art could be returned?

So I imagined a woman walking through present-day New York wearing the bracelet. As we get closer to the miniature, we find "Ivy" actually looking out from her own time. The person preserved inside the object is suddenly looking back at us, creating a fleeting exchange between past and present.

The engraved name “Ivy” on the back of the actual bracelet became a small but meaningful detail that helped me imagine the story behind the object.

And so I wanted to create something that felt like a visual poem 💛 A gaze captured centuries ago, finding its way back to another pair of eyes.

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