In Sea and Flowers, petals are thrown from baskets from the side of a boat into the ocean. The water is calm, but the slight swell causes the horizon line to sway in the distance. Through grey hazy weather, we see the petals – first a basket of pink, then white, then yellow – float and bob in the oceans chop before drifting some distance from the camera’s sight. Shot on film, there is a nostalgic quality to the footage and a lamenting tone to this ritual-like action. Shimabuku’s accompanying text recounts ‘One day, I saw a red flower floating on the waves at the coast. Was this flower drifting away from here to some far place? And I thought of the day when these flowers, long ago, drifted here from the continent across the sea. Where will they go, the flowers I cast into the sea? Will they eventually arrive somewhere?’