meet strangelove flowers

STRANGELOVE is the creative and curious floral practice of mimosa haque.

Inspired by nature, its imperfections and our interaction with it, STRANGELOVE aims to evoke emotions in the present — to surrender and wonder.

MEET MIMOSA

Mimosa Haque (she/her) is my name and I am a Bangladeshi-Canadian floral artist based in Tkaronto. I use flowers as a way to experiment with nature and undulate emotions.

What is your mission and vision for your practice of floral design?
The what and why you do what you do?

I use flowers as a way to heal and inspire. My creative floral practice helps me take inspiration from nature's imperfections and fully surrender to them. By doing so I uncover or discover new ways to express my emotions. My hope through my floral practice is to evoke emotions in the present to experience fully rather than consume passively.

How are flowers liminal to you?

If there was a symbol of liminality, I think flowers would be at the top of my list. They are almost a physical manifestation of "liminality" as they are in a constant state of change from radicle to bloom! At any given point along its journey they can shift and take on influences from its surroundings to become something entirely different.

What does liminality mean to you? What does it look like and feel like?

Liminality to me means neither here, nor there but the time and space in between reaching those two spheres. It feels like a container where anything is possible as nothing takes on an actual form. It looks like a blurry, beautiful gathering of imperfections.

What is your mission and vision for Liminal Lab? The what and why?

I want to share this floral meditative practice as a way to inspire folx to consider the now and fully surrender to "where they are now". In the beautiful container of Liminal Lab folx can wander and dream in a safe space to truly explore what's at their centre and in their heart presently without (hopefully) moving towards an end goal.