The NeoBloom series occupies a particular position within Harris's wider body of interactive work. Rather than digitising real-world phenomena, the series invents an entirely fictional botany — six imagined flowers whose form, motion and colour exist only as digital constructs. Across two paired canvases, Concord and Ascendant, the flowers are presented as colour studies in motion rather than botanical illustrations, each one resolving and dissolving in a continuous, viewer-responsive sequence.

The 'big bloom' is the work's defining moment. As a viewer approaches, the active flower disperses into a cloud of petals before reforming and surrendering the canvas to the next bloom in its sequence. The interaction places the viewer inside the cycle of the work — neither passive observer nor neutral presence, but the catalyst for the flower's transformation.

Read together as a pair, Concord and Ascendant hold individuality and harmony in deliberate tension. Each canvas has its own temperature: Concord the more composed of the two, anchored by soft whites, blues and pinks; Ascendant the more assertive, led by magenta and warmer tones. The series resists the traditional symbolism of flowers as fleeting emblems of mortality, offering instead a vision of perpetual, sustained beauty — flowers held outside the natural order of decay.

The NeoBloom artwork was selected as the inaugural artwork for display on Sunderland Expo's digital art screen — the largest transparent screen in the UK. Read more about this here.