KSKeith Stanley

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January 19, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 186

I’m away from home today, but still working on daily ikebana. Luckily my partner’s mother has a large selection of vases to work with, and some quince branches in bud. Quince is such great material if you have it, and this time of year it is widely available in wholesale and retail florists. Lots of […]

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January 16, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 183

Ikebana with staight lines from my Sogetsu ikebana class tonight, it was too big to get a photograph during class so I had to bring it home and remake it. Still it was too big to photograph straight on so I stood on a chair. The materials I used are red stick dogwood branches and […]

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January 13, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 180

After working on an arrangement which might be more expected today, I chose to strip it down and go in another direction. It’s different, not what I’d call a “pretty” arrangement but more in the direction I want my work to go. Playing with the elements today was more of an exploration of what they […]

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January 12, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 179

Most of my day was spent seeing art at some of the fantastic free museums we have in Washington,DC. Great for collecting ideas, bad for actual productivity since I got home late. After dinner I did this simple arrangement while visions of grander things danced in my head. All for another day I suppose, but […]

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January 11, 2012

365 Days of Ikebana-Day 178

Today I spent some time in the studio, trying to take advantage of the daylight and temperatures above freezing. The space heater helps some, and I hope to be able to get out there a lot in the next few weeks. For the arrangement I did today I used some branches of pussy willow, pink […]

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