Sea Flowers

The inspiration for Fried's Sea Flowers was Eddy Flowers, a family friend living with HIV. Fried writes, 'I wanted the piece to be about survival in difficult conditions, the fragility of life and hope. Finding H.D.'s 'Sea Garden' was fortuitous--a group of poems about delicate flowers surviving in the difficult terrain of the sea shore. These texts are a perfect match for the theme of the cycle and includes Eddy Flowers directly as a subject.'