May 21, 2012
Journal archive
Tag: ikebana
May 20, 2012
365 Days of Ikebana-Day 308
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 307
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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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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 305
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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 304
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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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365 Days of Ikebana-Day 302
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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 […]
Read story →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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