Flora Excursoria Hafniensis
Reader #B (2026)
Reader #B (2026) by Danish photographer, poet, and artist Kasper Bergholt extends the exergue logic he draws from Derrida in the Flora Excursoria Hafniensis series - the flower extracted from the volume, mounted, turning away, coming round again.
The figure in the image behaves like Drejer's specimen or Derrida's specter: it appears, withdraws, refuses to be fully present or fully absent.
Foliage haunts the circuitry just as vernacular composita - germaane, hjortetröst, hörsilke, natskygge, remslæbe, skovstjerne, troldurt, tusindfryd, vandkryber, vandnavle, vinterblomme - haunt the Linnaean Latin of the 1838 herbarium.
The Ordinal inscription (#74,857,184 ) becomes a new kind of Flora: satoshi as pressed specimen, the poem a winter-bloom cryptographically burned into the blockchain.