Sound of Flowers

Morris Broderson returned repeatedly to the image of a single figure tilting its head and lowering its ear toward an upturned flower. This series, Sound of Flowers, explores the curiosity of Deaf children wondering—“Do flowers make sounds?”

Morris Gayle Broderson

He/His/Him

Sound of Flowers

c. 1958

Mixed Media

There is an abstract style in the background with blue, black and orange. The orange part is like a sun and a person laying down on the ground with a blanket under. The black outlined person with some white inside looks like a different kind of person with no hair. There is one flower standing next to the person. The person stares at the flower.