Delphine Lejeune’s work displays different variations of the Delphinium flower, a human-manipulated species. The Delphinium is the result of 26 years of transformation in the hands of the plant breeder Edward Steichen, who specifically crafted it to finally bloom in its state of perfection and reveal its hundreds of flowers.

‘The Delphinium represents the search for natural perfection.’

Created in a range of light blue to deep dark purple, the Delphinium was the first fully human-made flower. Reaching a height of almost two meters, the species became a symbol of the transcendence of the relation between humans and nature.

Once relieved of any human control and inserted into the wild, the Delphinium kept mutating to survive the hazards of its environment and continued generating new variations of its own species, in a perpetual process of transformation.

The series Delphinium 001, 002, 003 was digitally crafted by Delphine Lejeune in collaboration with 3D artist Guillaume Roux. They are part of the research project Full Bloom – or The boundary between Nature and Artifice.

Delphinium is part of 'Expedition Aequalis', an ongoing, interdisciplinary design-research project by Dutch Invertuals in collaboration with The Future Laboratory, Edhv and Reon Brand.