A Series of Potential Outsides sets out to explore the possibilities of new “ecological coalitions” where the flower is the nucleus of the conversation. In most traditions and cultures, plants have been ascribed with symbolic meanings, and in some cases, powers. In the Early Modern period, literary texts compared people to plants in their common experience of growing, flourishing, and fading. The ontological conjoining of people and plants provides a material, as opposed to moral, understanding of the human body, embedded in a natural world teeming with homologous forms of life. Flowers, on the other hand, have gained a specific role in this alternative system of communication as conveyors of hidden messages. Floriography, traced back to Persia and the Middle East, was revived in France and it quickly spread across Europe. In 1819, Madame Charlotte de Latour’s “Le langage des fleures” sparked a popular tradition of expressing prohibited outright passionate conversations through a seemingly chaste botanical metalanguage. (references: Rosi Braidotti and Frédéric Neyrat)