Flowers For Linda is an artist-led listening practice on grief & creativity.

It unfolds through long-form conversations with artists, writers, and cultural workers that hold loss, lineage, and the ways meaning gathers around absence, moving with the rhythm of thought.

Most Recent Episode

Choosing How to Live with Chopp Stewart— interior designer, spatial artist, transformer of space.

This first episode of Season 3 unfolds in bed, in the company of ancestors. We begin with a strange presence in the room who leads us into a conversation about grief, ritual, and legacy.

Chopp shares about caregiving, assisted death, memorial-making, and the ways we choose to honor the people who raised us. We talk about parents and ancestors, risk and art, and the quiet (and sometimes loud) practices that make loss survivable.

A reminder: these conversations are meant for slow listening. Take it on a walk, tune in to accompany a sleepless night, or a long drive. These episodes are created with the intention of living with grief, not moving past it. They are released as they are made.

All episodes are available on Spotify, Apple, and wherever else you get your podcasts.

Past Episodes

Season 2

Singing With Roberta with Honey Larochelle
A Novel for Junior with Alejandro Heredia
The Ecstasy Of Grief with Katrina Goldsaito
Chasing the Uncanny with Cavalier
Fred’s Miraculous Second Act with Boyuan Gao
What Happened At the Cedar Lodge? with Maya Meissner
Fake Flowers Last Forever with Sam Sellers

Season 1

Still Mama Phife with Cheryl Boyce Taylor
A Ritual is a Container with Caroline Rothstein
The Dead Parents Club with Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Drop the Performance of Artist to Live Life as Art with Caits Meissner
I Am Enough with Maya Azucena

About the Project

Flowers for Linda began as a way of staying close to grief without needing to resolve it.

Decidedly not about advice or recovery, Flowers for Linda is a place to sit, listen, and remain with what continues after death. The project takes the form of long, unstructured conversations with artists, writers, and cultural workers. Each conversation is shaped through listening as a practice of care, accompaniment, and presence. Editing is minimal and intentional, preserving breath, silence, and unfinished ideas. Episodes are released intermittently, following the rhythm of the work rather than a fixed schedule.

The project is named in honor of Linda, the artist’s mother, a gardener and social worker. Flowers arrangements are made for each guest as part of the practice. These conversations are offerings.

Contact

If you’d like to get in touch, share a response, or inquire about the project, you can reach me here.

This project is led by artist Caits Meissner.