tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62330163566818181362024-02-07T06:06:44.421-08:00prophets of the spring'be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun'natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-74496495952375139892012-02-07T05:20:00.000-08:002012-02-07T05:22:09.481-08:00namesake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6x2QfZHR_SPqih0yRv_YoGrr_Lp9jb1jCHHXiPTVl5hm9EM671Aj2fKJbPLsmueG0UTQTM24ZBaorLP7aYps09U7CJhycKCvRAcWsYqPP8pvLKieOBhdtsjF-AnBhsrJuJeTYjihaz_Y/s1600/026.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS6x2QfZHR_SPqih0yRv_YoGrr_Lp9jb1jCHHXiPTVl5hm9EM671Aj2fKJbPLsmueG0UTQTM24ZBaorLP7aYps09U7CJhycKCvRAcWsYqPP8pvLKieOBhdtsjF-AnBhsrJuJeTYjihaz_Y/s320/026.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, she's no more now than a drop of snow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on a green stem- her name is now her calling.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Her mind is just a frozen melting glow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of water swollen to the point of falling,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">which maybe has no meaning. There's no telling.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But what a beauty, what a mighty power</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of patience kept intact is now in flower.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A few images that have been inspiring me lately. It's always nice to start the weekend with visual elevenses. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I can't credit them because I don't know their origins, very sorry 'bout that. </span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-58818834321767141702011-09-12T11:31:00.000-07:002011-09-12T11:31:41.914-07:00Yuki Aruga (part one)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPfuOWYK4FYOZOfVn4W44BUvGz1MQWxBbrE97eAfW5MgiHnG_Hz-6ki3t5J-zP1MXq8J2h6YHcDyOBaA9jG2BGYMgMJ1BZWmdHcUS4EH9aZImPCGO-uMZO5IE0s4NqYGus-zk0m4J2WMc/s1600/Sustained+in+motion.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhPfuOWYK4FYOZOfVn4W44BUvGz1MQWxBbrE97eAfW5MgiHnG_Hz-6ki3t5J-zP1MXq8J2h6YHcDyOBaA9jG2BGYMgMJ1BZWmdHcUS4EH9aZImPCGO-uMZO5IE0s4NqYGus-zk0m4J2WMc/s320/Sustained+in+motion.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">Sustained in Motion</span></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I love animals and I don't eat them so you might think having a 'bit of a thing' about taxidermy is perhaps a little odd. Well in this case the talented <a href="http://www.yukiaruga.co.uk/iWeb/Yuki%20Aruga/Home.html">Yuki Aruga</a> uses a delicate touch and the addition of fresh flowers for a 21st century take on the ancient art of taxidermy. Floristry and dead animals... strange but wonderful.</span>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-16732681664040792732011-08-16T01:36:00.000-07:002011-08-16T01:37:18.826-07:00Renaissance woman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Long way going to</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Get my medecine</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Sky's the autumn grey of a lonely wren</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Piano from a window played</span></div><div id="songlyrics"><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Gone tomorrow, gone yesterday</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">I found it in the street</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">At first I did not see</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Lying at my feet</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">A trampled rose</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Passing the hat in the church</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">It never stops going around</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">You never pay just once </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">To get the job done</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">What I done to me,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">I done to you</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">What happened to the trampled rose?</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">In the muddy street</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">With the fireworks and leaves</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">A blind man with a cup I asked</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Would he sing 'Kisses Sweeter Than Wine'</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">I know that rose,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Like I know my name</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">The one I gave my love,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">It was the same</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">Now I find it in the street,</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;">A trampled rose</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">-Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan</span></div></div></div><div id="songlyrics" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div id="songlyrics" style="line-height: 1.3em; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Listen to Alison Krauss and Robert Plant's beautiful version of this song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UktYJFxj5PA">here</a></span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-86860966823603748142011-08-07T02:34:00.000-07:002011-08-07T02:34:32.526-07:00The Triffids are coming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">A gentle, textural combination showcasing the beauty of the dahlia. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Victorians loved the flamboyance and variety of this flower and a prize of one thousand pounds was offered in 1826 for the first blue dahlia but no one has produced one (yet).</span></span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-76788480570396870092011-08-01T14:06:00.000-07:002011-08-04T14:05:25.918-07:00Yedda Morrison<blockquote><h4 style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 500px;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This work takes as its starting point the human desire for permanence, a desire made acute by the inevitability of our passing. If photography itself is a manifestation of this desire, our attempt to arrest or “still life,” plastic plants and flowers are a low-rent corollary. Suspended mid bloom and scattered throughout graveyards and empty parlors, they offer the promise of perennial youth, an eternal flowering, life ever after. Fake flowers both immortalize and render static the natural world. As such, they articulate a crisis between beauty and horror, desire and loss, artificiality and “the natural.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 500px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In our fall from the “pre” or “no” time of Eden, we have landed squarely in the artificial garden, the stilled remains of paradise. These sights of frozen or no time and the scale, duration and technology that make them possible, work to articulate a world where boundaries between the real and the artificial are increasingly blurred. If, in our contemporary moment, we are experiencing a gradual substitution of the machine for the body/mind, the image for the thing, and the simulation of the environment for the environment itself, then perhaps we are realizing Robert Smithson’s “frozen actuality,” the hallucinatory disjunction where “nothing is known but the impenetrable surfaces,” where “the artificial ingenuity of time allows no return to nature.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 500px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Bioposys are reconstituted artificial flowers and plants, mutant strains, improbable and permanent hybrids. The larger pieces attempt to envision a constellation of flower bombs, offering glimpses into possible futures of plastic and mishap. In others, the crude undersides begin to show through, revealing the cheap materials and human labor that ultimately destroy any illusions of “real.” And they offer more questions than answers; what happens when the “artificial” becomes a stand it for the “real?” When our pursuit of perfection, symmetry, longevity leads to ecological disaster? What is our relationship to “nature” as it mutates, rebels or ceases to exist? And what if we find the mutations themselves desirable? What constitutes beauty in an age of environmental crisis? Is simulation the new preservation? If a “real” plant is a statement from another time, are we already after nature?</span></div></h4><div style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; width: 500px;"></div><div style="font-size: 11px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 500px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Yedda Morrison, August 2007</span></div></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9Bvh_FtHoV6sVWOCYsVW-TQnjljQ7cWnPWpSZJYb2kVEHSzq31HTcr9s1pAOhHjjbSi9gQM6O4wD3udkTShGzm3fmsNN-34cXKZO-lKONhLWnKHffAxRmGABtGcgbBtX2ipIf_NN5cOj/s1600/19_swarmweb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9Bvh_FtHoV6sVWOCYsVW-TQnjljQ7cWnPWpSZJYb2kVEHSzq31HTcr9s1pAOhHjjbSi9gQM6O4wD3udkTShGzm3fmsNN-34cXKZO-lKONhLWnKHffAxRmGABtGcgbBtX2ipIf_NN5cOj/s320/19_swarmweb.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Yedda Morrison is a visual artist and writer from San Francisco. These scanned images of artificial flowers from her Bioposy series have an ethereal beauty and a dark and tangible softness. They entice me to the shadows beyond, there's a mystery there waiting to be discovered. They are reminiscent of 17th century Dutch still life paintings but with a luminescence that makes them entirely modern and other-worldly. You can see more of Yedda's work on her <a href="http://yeddamorrison.com/">website</a></span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-81366409089944096512011-07-31T13:21:00.000-07:002011-07-31T13:21:15.780-07:00Bowled over...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPeXcMWm7AkT1r8mwnChkwAvTy-phJ6L9UKbwkzrzQLRXSHdWHcIRpELp886llh83bQa_I8xX3wVmi4nN7tMQEsH66MDxIwt8ZR1oksL2OrdG4GSrONWdsYHviKVBGL68t0S6uNqjSahp/s1600/083.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhPeXcMWm7AkT1r8mwnChkwAvTy-phJ6L9UKbwkzrzQLRXSHdWHcIRpELp886llh83bQa_I8xX3wVmi4nN7tMQEsH66MDxIwt8ZR1oksL2OrdG4GSrONWdsYHviKVBGL68t0S6uNqjSahp/s320/083.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Oh, and I promised you bowls. Here they are, in all their lunar scape-like, glazed glory. Yum. It was almost a shame to fill them with flowers. Almost.</span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-40850733609934535612011-07-31T12:20:00.000-07:002011-07-31T12:20:30.606-07:00A Summer wedding (part two)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgIP4TXH_1_BNcYqHyUD-Pmde0owhnqOKwLuanwmyjUezqAmaCldFz9dW1goXhTNhg7_Nlhabgip0vWUdqcKnFDn4qMjFew1jDHr76GI9A1dtkHCYWyQ7jRS7hj9XEpdwCRV8Vd81OrJE/s1600/_MG_6833+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidgIP4TXH_1_BNcYqHyUD-Pmde0owhnqOKwLuanwmyjUezqAmaCldFz9dW1goXhTNhg7_Nlhabgip0vWUdqcKnFDn4qMjFew1jDHr76GI9A1dtkHCYWyQ7jRS7hj9XEpdwCRV8Vd81OrJE/s320/_MG_6833+-+Copy.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">More lovely shots of the table flowers, replete with summery blooms and topped off with little retro world flags on knitting needles (made by the bride's fair hands yet again).</span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-64127114971501994322011-07-30T01:46:00.000-07:002011-07-30T01:49:51.878-07:00A Summer wedding (part one)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyJVAZjacqbiZjCem1h1K3W0dq_oDbE1LH-1TDvzWN3umrAvS_BhxKH5JlFznG1bk9w6BJ748bdc3scuEYGeGL3rxcLD0p-SF1wEY_WOX0YCz7FZRLbKZQD-S39czO5wwim-x4bk11sbS/s1600/_MG_6448.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkyJVAZjacqbiZjCem1h1K3W0dq_oDbE1LH-1TDvzWN3umrAvS_BhxKH5JlFznG1bk9w6BJ748bdc3scuEYGeGL3rxcLD0p-SF1wEY_WOX0YCz7FZRLbKZQD-S39czO5wwim-x4bk11sbS/s320/_MG_6448.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-dphrQNrnH8wy5OM1fk7Sx1Nd2gOrTQgkEyT2wcqE589Adz3td5PrtWN6FkiT1mNnxIEZKaqDYsQk65e1Jg82EcLhFdQi6_Xm1TviBTadBRS30OIAbNYP9q25_2NxqqsQO7AFG_Wy1Ds/s1600/_MG_6303.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA-dphrQNrnH8wy5OM1fk7Sx1Nd2gOrTQgkEyT2wcqE589Adz3td5PrtWN6FkiT1mNnxIEZKaqDYsQk65e1Jg82EcLhFdQi6_Xm1TviBTadBRS30OIAbNYP9q25_2NxqqsQO7AFG_Wy1Ds/s320/_MG_6303.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><blockquote style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">The brief: a high Summer wedding celebrating all things seasonal, colourful, joyful and natural. The bride: ridiculously creative, she made everything from the hand printed invitations to the beautiful ceramic bowls for the table flowers. What you can't appreciate here are the wonderful finishes and glazes on the inside of the bowls (more of that to follow).</span></blockquote>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6233016356681818136.post-8835028724392242912011-07-28T14:18:00.000-07:002011-07-28T14:18:43.378-07:00J'adore Pivoines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYxUdNjsR-Hn9Ion2Tg62KR7z6kYRtDSKtcDiJceWPjhe0SXrVzIrvsSlhiX6sTWVHdv6YxGvHsSUrzm5wG-mvOtDN0PH7fzkEIbzfT_sNsRZf5RQ6HZm0vPpdNlhQqTqmESl3fgepZb7T/s1600/_MG_6419.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYxUdNjsR-Hn9Ion2Tg62KR7z6kYRtDSKtcDiJceWPjhe0SXrVzIrvsSlhiX6sTWVHdv6YxGvHsSUrzm5wG-mvOtDN0PH7fzkEIbzfT_sNsRZf5RQ6HZm0vPpdNlhQqTqmESl3fgepZb7T/s320/_MG_6419.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: small;">Sandrine Bihorel is a French sculptor who turned her hand to painting to create these large decorative panels. The fusion of clay and paint gives these pieces a textural surface that has been described as old embossed leather and the patterns peeking out from behind the blooms are inspired by her collections of fabrics. For me they are reminiscent of many things: the glossy cracked ceramics of my childhood, travels to exotic souks and heady Moorish nights, the smell of mysterious Victorian volumes depicting strange and wonderful floral specimens. I'm never quite sure whether I prefer the beautiful printed textile motifs or the curling, fluid lines of the flowers but in truth I can't imagine one existing without the other by her hand. You can see more of her work <a href="http://sandrine.bihorel.free.fr/">here</a></span></div></td></tr>
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">You might wonder why a florist would begin her first blog post with buttonholes and corsages- the smallest and probably, you're thinking, the most insignificant part of her work. In answer there's actually something immeasurably satisfying about making these tiny flowery creations, it must be all that wiring and silky wisps of ribbon. Not to mention lovely pins- a good haberdashery is every florist's friend. Of course we have the usual suspect the thistle (or what passes for a thistle) as we're in Scotland. Inevitable really but don't hold that against it, poor thing.</span></div>natalya maehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08739099074077368354noreply@blogger.com0