Circle of Life
In this creation, a willow circle is the support for a special combination of botanical materials: chamber pines, Vanda, Amaryllis, Clematis fluff, lilies, Leucospermum, Calathea and Rhipsalis. Metal sprite lines and self-created metal leaves help direct the creation. A work that listens to space. The circle catches the light as the field catches the sun. Christmas as a return of life that never completely disappeared.
Floating in equilibrium
At the origin of this floating
creation is a beautifully shaped branch.
All the botanical materials, such as the branch, chamber pines, Amaryllis, Vanda, Anthurium, Clematis fluff as well as the metal sprite lines and leaves themselves determine the direction of this work that finds itself
between heaviness and breath. It is not
bound to ground or ceiling but
floating in balance. The in-between space
is also point of rest. There where light and
direction meet.
The tree
A very unusually shaped root base was selected as the base to which branches are attached chambered like real tree branches. Clematis fluff serves as natural decoration, reflecting in the glass globes. A number of metal leaf shapes enhance the whole, a single metal sprite points the height
up. This is a field creature at rest.
It recalls light returning, days lengthening,
of growth waiting in silence.
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