After an unexpected realization that she had spent her entire life swimming in water without ever consciously noticing it, Flo became fascinated by a question that would change her career forever:

"What else do intelligent beings stop noticing simply because it's always been there?"

She subsequently redirected her research toward Homo sapiens, a remarkably creative, cooperative, theatrical species known for constructing elaborate systems of shared imagination and then behaving as though those systems are features of the physical universe.

Her work focuses on helping humans momentarily step outside their own aquarium to observe themselves with fresh eyes — not to judge, but to wonder.