"after everything, flowers"

A LUNA 2026 installation by Mildly Wild Flowers and Revelstoke growers

In a world that can feel rigid, extractive and exhausting, tending to living things is its own quiet act of defiance. This installation places locally grown flowers from Revelstoke growers into the kinds of spaces flowers aren't supposed to be: reclaimed structures, forgotten surfaces, and one very special old truck.

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The forest:
Moss, ferns, horsetail and birch. Every layer here has been placed with intention. The design takes its cues from our local forests, where resistance looks like growing, living and staying connected, standing strong together because of diversity, not in spite of it. Everything gathered from the forest will be returned to it once LUNA is over.

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The flowers:
Flowers bring the beauty, the light and the emotion. They say the things we sometimes can't. When the world feels a little much, cruel or rigid, flowers keep growing, and we find that quietly radical. Beauty isn't frivolous. It's persistent, collaborative and stubbornly hopeful. Choosing colour, softness and care in difficult times is its own form of resistance.

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The truck:
Several twists of fate brought this truck here tonight. It's been cruising around Revelstoke for decades, likely down Mackenzie Avenue back in the day, then up logging roads hauling firewood to keep homes warm through long, grey, deep-snow winters. More recently it lived at Tammen Mökki, where many of these flowers are grown. It has since found a new home with Liam, who, after being approached at the garden centre, kindly agreed to let it be part of this piece.

We love that it's perfectly rusted and slowly being reclaimed by nature. And we especially love that beneath all the moss and flowers, it's red and white. Elbows up.

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Sit a while:
This is a sit spot. We invite you to pause here and consider: what does an act of resistance look like to you?

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Made together:
This work is collaborative in every sense. It exists because multiple growers chose to share what they grew, and we believe that kind of generosity (of time, of soil, of blooms) is part of what resilience looks like too.

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Where the flowers go next:
At the end of the night, these flowers will be gifted to LUNA volunteers and staff, with the remainder donated to a local farm stand raising funds for Palestine!