Weekly One - Theory of the Derive

Derive is the act of wandering through psychogeographical analysis and calculated possibilties of different relations. Below are five links that I crossed while practicing the theory of the derive. While also trying to learn how to code html, I think I misused the tag "h" tag because the titles for each link are slowly diminishing in size. However, I like the "happy accident" because it's like I'm slowly being sucked into a network void where I'm constantly roaming and getting lost.

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Relationship with Flowers

Floriography

This was my intial curiousity and then it bloomed into different forms.

Poision in beauty

Nightshade

Humans use flowers as a metaphor for love, death, friendship, and beauty. I became interested in the idea where a flower was use for abusive and harmful purposes.

White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Mother is in prison, but her daughter is the prisoner

White Oleander is about a girl who's mother was sentenced to prison for murdering a man with a concetretated Oleander poison.

Apothacary

Shopping

I thought of Apothacaries and ended up window shopping for essential oils and raw ingredients.

Pharmaceuticals
Good or Evil?

I thought of pharmaceuticals because it's a capitalist modern practice that's meant to manufacture and provide medication to people. Paradoxically, I think they are poisonous because they create greedy businesses and doctors who control the accessibility of drugs to sick patients.