Emotional Platings

Emotional Platings is a series of picnic kits from trees that heal specific emotions, identified in the Bach Flower Essence philosophy developed by Edward Bach in the 1940s. Each picnic kit includes a blanket, servingware crafted by the artist, a notecard with conversational prompts, and a notebook. The public will check out a specific kit in advance, asked to bring food to share, and then paired with a stranger based on the emotion they have selected. Having grown up in rural Minnesota, Hirsch hopes to explore the rural/urban divide by traveling to 5 rural towns throughout Minnesota, asking 160 people to check out a kit and explore emotion together.