Journal archive
July 24, 2011
It’s 4:30am and I forgot to bring any flowers inside to do my ikebana, and I tried going out with a flashlight but that didn’t work out so well. I had forgotten about the coyotes here, and got just a wee bit afraid of roaming in my parents garden without being able to see well. […]
Read story →July 23, 2011
My quick ikebana for today, I’m busy trying to pack and get ready to travel tomorrow. Up at 4:30am, hoping to get a small arrangement done,photographed, and posted.
Read story →July 22, 2011
Day 5 was a challenge in the oppressive heat. I wanted to find some greenbrier vines in the woods, and the heat and bugs were terrible. After searching for a bit I managed to find some. I had also wanted to use the magnolia obtusa (which my family calls “the cucumber tree”) and I located […]
Read story →July 21, 2011
For Day 4 I wanted to do something with the Japanese knotweed growing nearby, it’s an extremely invasive plant but I still like using it. I cut a large stem of it and sawed it into small pieces of different lengths and placed them on one side of a suiban and secured them in place. […]
Read story →July 20, 2011
The arrangement is simple, really almost too simple but I like it. Part of this project is to grow and make more complex/out of the box work, and by the end I hope to accomplish that goal. 365 Days of Ikebana is all about growth and doing the work daily, and today I have done […]
Read story →July 19, 2011
Day 2 of my project “365 Days of Ikebana” is here, and I have my work from today on view. I started with a fountain of zebra grass and a single blue/purple hydrangea and just could not seem to get what I wanted. Lots of reworking the materials, trying to get it right. I took […]
Read story →July 18, 2011
Today is the very first day of my new project: 365 Days of Ikebana. It’s something I have been thinking about for a while, something to get me motivated to do more work and do it on a daily basis. After discovering Noah Scalin’s book 365: A Daily Creativity Journal: Make Something Every Day and […]
Read story →July 1, 2011
Photographed in my outdoor “studio” (also know as the great ourdoors) the Shogonka arrangement from my Saga Goryu Ikebana class this week. This is one of the four main styles of Saga Goryu Ikebana: Moribana, Heika, Seika, and Shogonka. The directions of the flowers symbolize the relation between Heaven and Earth, the length of the […]
Read story →June 25, 2011
From my Saga Goryu Ikebana class this past week “Heika-Chokuseitai Maedome”. I’ve been studying this wonderful classical school of ikebana for a year now. It’s adding to my knowledge of ikebana and helping me to be more centered. Another nice aspect is that is has made my Sogetsu Ikebana seem much easier, maybe it’s the […]
Read story →June 18, 2011
Today I did an ikebana arrangement for the 2011 Legacy of Mary Sugiyama-Sogetsu Ikebana Exhibition at the United States National Arboretum. I’ve done this show several times before and you can read about last year’s exhibition (and see some photos) on my other blog Sogetsu Atelier . Ths exhibition is a short one last only […]
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