Drew Mulholland & Garden Gate - Night Blooming Flowers

[Rubin Farr]

'Night Blooming Flowers' tells the curious tale of a botanist in search of a rare and precious flower, said only to bloom during the hours of darkness. Although a diligent and learned practitioner of science, the botanist is nevertheless unfamiliar with local lore. This proves to be their downfall.
An inadvertent misstep into the bounds of a fairy ring, triggers a series of encounters with all manner of strange and magical sights, as the path gradually leads deeper into the darkling woods.
In the closing piece, day breaks and relief sets in, only for our hapless protagonist to find themselves rendered invisible to the everyday world, trapped 'betwixt between', consigned to a parallel dimension of supernatural enchantment.
Originally a tantalising transatlantic postal collaboration between hauntological mischief-maker Drew Mulholland, and American baroque psych/horror savant Timmi Meskers (Garden Gate), 'Night Blooming Flowers' brews up a series of iterative compositions where each artist would share a foundation and the other would expand or edit, folding back and forth, accruing and removing layers until a shared sense of completion was reached.