The children of over 80 schools and organizations in Brussels took part in a massive sunflower planting project. They were encouraged to plant the seeds not just for their own pleasure, but also to consider how they could be used as a means of exchange and communication with other inhabitants of their city. Each group planned and developed its own strategy. A vast range of initiatives sprang up from the children’s fertile imagination.

Operation Sunflower was presented to the children as a story told by the Sound Tree, installed at the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts (Brussels) and the Kelvingrove Museum and Art Gallery (Glasgow).