“While staying in Canada, Helen Chadwick and her partner, David Notarius, set off to different locations and made a mound of snow and placed a large flower shaped cutter over it. Chadwick and Notarius then took turns urinating in the snow. The cavities created by the urine were then filled with plaster and were shipped back to the UK where they were grafted onto hyacinth bull-shaped pedestals and cast in bronze, enamelled white, and inverted. Initially, Chadwick had planned to take photographs of pitted snow, making light drawings of the alpine microcosm, but later realised that this would only be visible if it was cast and made into a sculpture.

Chadwick described the work as a ‘metaphysical conceit for the union of two people expressing themselves bodily’. Upon initial inspection the central phallic form of Piss Flowers may appear to be created by a man; but it is actually caused by Chadwick, who was closer to the ground, squatting.”🏴