Bloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution

After nine decades in operation, a disused mental institution in Massachusetts became a public art space as artist Anna Schuleit filled the empty rooms and corridors with thousands of brightly-coloured flowers. The temporary artwork, which was commissioned as a tribute to the building's emotive history, gave local residents a chance to remember and memorialise the work of the medical centre before it will be demolished to make way for new facilities.

The artwork, called 'Bloom', filled a former children's psychiatric unit with white tulips, covered the basement floor with vivid green grass, blue African violets in the annex and orange tulips in one of the patients' treatment rooms.

[Via This Is Colossal]