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Propulsion

Couldn't help myself! Here is a wonderful collage by an unknown artist that I saw at 1st Dibs. I decided to throw my two cents in by adding the fishbowl with flowers. Somehow the associations came together in an un-realistic yet optimistic way that summed up my day. What is a world without color or flowers?

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Crisp and Clean

I can go nuts adding different elements to a bouquet and they might all work together as a complex tapestry but my favorite medleys usually happen when the third or fourth element is added and something modestly whispers, ".....that's it".
Simplicity is often the best choice.
I was tickled to see this flirty green and white bouquet featured in a full page spread for WEDDINGS New York Magazine Spring /Summer 2011 issue!

Cabbage Rose

"DARCY" Rosa Centifolia

The Thin People

Sylvia Plath

They are always with us, the thin people
Meager of dimension as the gray people

On a movie-screen.  They
Are unreal, we say:

It was only in a movie, it was only
In a war making evil headlines when we

Were small that they famished and
Grew so lean and would not round

Out their stalky limbs again though peace
Plumped the bellies of the mice

Under the meanest table.
It was during the long hunger-battle

They found their talent to persevere
In thinness, to come, later,

Into our bad dreams, their menace
Not guns, not abuses,

But a thin silence.
Wrapped in flea-ridded donkey skins,

Empty of complaint, forever
Drinking vinegar from tin cups: they wore

The insufferable nimbus of the lot-drawn
Scapegoat.  But so thin,

So weedy a race could not remain in dreams,
Could not remain outlandish victims

In the contracted country of the head
Any more than the old woman in her mud hut could

Keep from cutting fat meat
Out of the side of the generous moon when it

Set foot nightly in her yard
Until her knife had pared

The moon to a rind of little light.
Now the thin people do not obliterate

Themselves as the dawn
Grayness blues, reddens, and the outline

Of the world comes clear and fills with color.
They persist in the sunlit room: the wallpaper

Frieze of cabbage-roses and cornflowers pales
Under their thin-lipped smiles,

Their withering kingship.
How they prop each other up!

We own no wilderness rich and deep enough
For stronghold against their stiff

Battalions.  See, how the tree boles flatten
And lose their good browns

If the thin people simply stand in the forest,
Making the world go thin as a wasp's nest

And grayer; not even moving their bones.

Hot Magenta

I'm smitten with this little pedestal bowl I broke down and bought on Ebay. It's really no holds bar kitsch while being over the top fabulous all at once! Flowers: Peonies, Garden Roses, Hydrangea, Begonia, Lemon and Aspedestra leaves with Maidenhair Fern(not see in these shots).

It's Springing!

It's raining outside, nourishing the soil and root systems which are preparing to burst forth any day now with green and blossoms. The inevitable celebration of earth's next go around!
This gift arrangement of Peonies, Helioborus, Lilac, Jasmine, Viburnum and Sweet Peas reminds it's admirer's of the delicate aromas and colors of Spring.

Tangle

Be there or be square!!!! To enter her world is to travel to another dimension :)

CHRISTINE SCIULLI: TANGLE
11 MARCH thru 10 APRIL 2011

PUBLIC RECEPTION 18 MARCH 2011, 6pm - 9pm

CAUSEY CONTEMPORARY
92 Wythe Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211
718 218 8939
11-7 Wednesday - Friday,
12-6 Saturday -Sunday
9-5 Monday,
Closed Tuesday

Christine Sciulli's latest video Projection Installation TANGLE, part of her planeSPACE series, overruns Causey Contemporary, creating meandering pathways in which to immerse viewers in fractured planes of light. “It’s not every day that you see an artist like Christine Sciulli. Her work consists of intersections of the geometry and an intuitive sense of how to use everyday materials to give a sense of “spatialisation” - she plays with how we perceive the world around us in a way that leaves you with a kind of eerie sense of timelessness.” Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky from his essay “Christine Sciulli: An Artist of the Floating World, planeSPACE and Practical Geometry”

For more information go to http://www.soundandvision.cc/

A Protean Bouquet

This bouquet was shot for Bride's magazine earlier this year. I thought that the Queen Protea could be used as a posy holder and emptied it's central core of petals which were then individually wired and reintroduced with Ladies' Mantle, and wired delicate pink Begonia blossoms. A casual cross tie of green rafia with a single large pearl pin sweetly finishes it off for a bouquet that looks yummy enough to want to eat it!

Marigold Posy

Here's a small Marigold posy which was featured in this year's Fall /Winter Issue of Bride's Magazine. Each Marigold was hand wired and then assembled and tied with a burgundy gross grain ribbon.