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May 18, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 306

This piece is a true balancing act, the pencil heliconias playing together one firmly in place, and the other just holding on held by a bit of dried palm. It much like building a house of cards sometimes, perhaps the precarious placing of flowers is a big part of the thrill. These arrangements often fall, […]

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May 15, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 303

Some days I have a pretty good idea of how to use the materials I choose and other days I cut things and then “force” myself to come up with a creative solution to work with them. Today the two most outstanding things blooming in the garden were the white sweetpeas (heavenly) and blue nigella, […]

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May 13, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 301

My work at Artomatic 2012 is installed finally! I just had to go add the remaining bits, paint a column and add my name in my space. The work is made of lots of cherry branches and 120-150 crapsedia stems, the cherry branches are nailed together and the craspedia is held in place using predrilled […]

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May 12, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 300

Hooray, it’s day 300 of my project! This afternoon I worked on my installation at Artomatic, the nearly completed piece is shown below. I still have a lot of work to do to finish up tomorrow, but for today I am pretty happy with what I have done so far. My space is pretty large […]

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May 11, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 299

I’m squeezing in my daily arrangement and finishing my prep work for Artomatic. The last of the constructed pieces for my Artomatic installation have been painted and they will be added to the other pieces that were put in place last weekend. Tomorrow I am off to finish installing before the deadline late sunday night. […]

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May 10, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 298

My preparations for Artomatic continue, so I thought I would post a sneak peek at them. Below are some of the prepared branches, only partially painted with a white primer. At last they have all been sawed(which is something that I believe has contributed greatly to a pinched nerve in my upper back) and the […]

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