I’ve wanted to share my research as an artist and a professor outside of the walls of academia and art institutions, for a long time. My hope is that my particular constellation of research that informs my practice and teaching can serve a greater community. In my work, I weave together disparate disciplines such as climate science, ecology, spirituality, psychology, art, poetry and more.

This first release of Dystopie Fleurs Éditions offers a guide in the format of a digital magazine, and a series of limited edition screenprints depicting the first Dystopie Fleur/Dystopia Flower.

Fleur n°1 is an image that comes from a collaboration I had over this past winter with a bird of paradise flower. This life-form called to me and as I kept drawing the form as a 'still life' or 'nature morte', I was moved by her vitality, radical defiance & primordial strangeness of an otherworldly life-force. The flower seemed to have endured everything, and had so much mysterious magneticism. I felt called to capture this spirit. This dialogue was also part of my brainstorming process to launch Dystopie Fleurs as a concept. This first screenprint / sérigraphie comes in neon green-black or black-black. Format A4.

The Spring Guide to Climate Dystopia compiles 12 prompts in 4 categories. Each prompt can take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour. As an ensemble, I believe the guides can serve as a support to life in dystopian times. There is no right order to use the guide; you could go chronologically, or one per category, or start with one randomly and go to the next one that feels right. The idea is that you can live with the guide throughout the spring months.

This is the first release of Dystopie Fleurs Éditions. I hope that it serves many, and is the first of many. I am excited to create fruitful releases & invite collaborations with Dystopie Fleurs in the future. - Beau Bree Rhee