Gessert creates his artistic irises by hybridizing wild varieties and discarding the undesirable results in his compost pile. He keeps, and breeds, those flowers that are aesthetically pleasing to him, those that display traits such as vivid vein patterns in their petals and unruffled edges. His decision to compost the flowers that have ruffled edges is both an aesthetic choice and a reaction against commercial flower breeders, who tend to breed for ruffled petals in every flower species.
He work shows that nature is interpreted and even authored by humans. He has previously been accused of "genetic graffiti" in previous scatter projects, as he scatters the seeds of these hybridized plants in the wilderness, where people associate it as a place of never-changing natural purity exists. However when trees are cut down for logging or to create roads this is not seen as "genetic graffiti", even though this does greatly change the genetics in the area.
"With Gessert's folkstyle of genetics, he does not need the expensive tools of genetic engineering to create conceptually intriguing artworks about the interaction of humankind with nature."
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