a collaboration between Japanese flower arranging and fine art
Taikan rotated the painting Sheherezade, added tall grasses, and placed a limb to emphasize vertical elements in the painting. Her choices of a metallic vessel and red berries pick up the colors creating a harmonious relationship.
Alternating Currents
Here we see Laureen has arranged long, dried plant material horizontally. She painted the fronds the same color of electric orange as the painting Alternating Currents, bringing it into the three-dimensional space.
Ravage and Renewal
Hiroko has taken the geometric angles of the painting Ravage and Renewal and echoed them in her arrangement of grasses. She has created the mood of stormy weather by using monochromatic plant materials, creating a close harmony between the two art forms.
Kalyna 2
With close observation, Megumi was able to discern the thin, black, fluid lines beneath the painting’s [Kalyna 2] surface and chose a delicate vine to correspond to it. She added a maple tree limb with autumnal splashes of various reds, which was a wonderful way to connect the many different reds in the artwork.
Autumnal Shift
Keeping with the earthy palette in the art Autumnal Shift, Taikan has chosen a tumbleweed and bone-like branches. She has added orange-yellow flowers at the same point as in the painting, giving it a 3-D quality, almost lifting it into the surrounding area. The semi-circular vessel echoes the brown arch in the upper right. What a wonderful collaboration!
