Huge floral display takes over historic site in Brussels

Описание: (15 Aug 2024)
BELGIUM CARPET OF FLOWERS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Brussels, Belgium - 15 August 2024
1. Wide tilt down from the Town Hall to the carpet flower in Grand Place
2. Mid of a volunteer placing flowers
3. Tilt up of a volunteer placing flowers
4. Close of red wood chips
5. Wide pan of the Grand Place
6. Mid of a volunteer carrying flowers
7. Mid of volunteers working
8. Close of the pattern with numbers to guide flower placement
9. Mid of boxes of flower
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Delphine Houba, Alderman for Culture and Tourism:
"It's every two years, it's going to last for four days so it is very short. Because it is an ephemeral art, more than a hundred people were busy from this morning to put the flowers on the ground, on the most beautiful place in the world. And this special edition is an honour to street art because it is the fifty years of hip hop so we asked a street artist, a female artist to make the design of this year's flower carpet."

11. Mid of tourists
12. Wide tilt down of the Grand Place
13. Mid of volunteers working
14. Close of flowers
15. Mid of flowers
16. Mid of the flower carpet and workers
17. Close of a volunteer laying flowers
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Delphine Houba, Alderman for Culture and Tourism:
"It is very important for the attractiveness of the city because we have here people coming from all over the world to discover the flower carpet so it is a way of promoting Brussels in the whole world, it is a way also of showing our know-how, how to grow these flowers because these flowers were just cut this night, last night, and put this morning. So fresh flowers grown in Belgium and also how our artistic way can also express because we asked a Belgian artist to make the design and to have this beautiful result."

19. Mid of Delphine Houba and the artist, Océane Cornille, aka Whoups
20. Mid of volunteers working
21. Close of flower buckets
22. Wide of the flower carpet
23. Mid of tourists
24. High view point of the Grand Place
25. SOUNDBITE (French) Oceane Cornille - also known as 'Whoups" artist:
"For this flower carpet I wanted to talk about Brussels, and Brussels for me is a city rich in culture and diversity so I decided to take inspiration from the plant rhizome which is an underground connection between plants. The plants communicate between each other in an non-hierarchical way and nonlinear and I thought that illustrated perfectly Brussels with all its neighbourhoods that have their own identity, whether it's historical, linguistic, cultural...and that communicate all between each other in a very organic and natural way which creates the beauty and the crazy side of this city that we love."

26. Close of a pink flower
27. Mid of the flower carpet sign
28. Wide of volunteers working on the flower carpet
29. Wide of the Grand Place and the flower carpet
30. SOUNDBITE (French) Oceane Cornille - also known as 'Whoups" artist:
"The difficulty was of course to work with natural material because we are not talking about centimetres or milimetres, we talk in flower size. My work is very thin, I do really really thin lines, so it was a bit the challenge to reproduce what I normally paint by working with the size of the flowers and the scale of the colours is a lot less rich than when we paint so it also demanded a certain adaptation."

31. Close of a volunteer laying flowers
32. Close pull focus from flowers to volunteer
33. Wide of the flower carpet
34. Close of volunteer laying flowers

36. Mid of volunteers
37. Close of the pattern with numbers



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