#floral installations

[feralchaton]

[blistexenthusiast]

Ant Hamlyn, Velvet Bouquet

[53v3nfrn5]

Alfredo Jaar: ‘Let One Hundred Flowers Bloom’ (2005)

[woundgallery]

Capricious Invention of Prisons. (Sarah Sze, 1999, wood, string, plants lights, fans, mixed media, dimensions variable. Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York.)

[prism-garden]

Ikebana Iridescence

Ikebana Iridescence.

I’ve kept this concept in the vault of my ideas for years - combining light with floral arrangements. The art of ikebana was always inspiring. The practice of using natural, found elements in a poetic and sculptural way. With that in mind, I’ve wanted to combine my use of light with it. For years, sketchbook after sketchbook, I’d write in “ikebana! with lights!” but never found it was the right time or even how to execute it. But sometimes you just have to do it and see where it takes you.

There are many similar sketches and mentions, but just for the process sake these are the more recent ones.

In a way I’ve already frequented the combination of plants and lights - projection mapping on them as well. So the concept isn't entirely new.

This is a shot as part of an immersive light installation I did for ArtFair14c one year, that I titled "Garden Reverie." But those flowers were fake, of course. Just a reoccurring prop I use as well as my acrylic tubes and random glass boxes I come across. I feel like my tools are less like studio tools and more forgotten things found at a flea market. But I feel like that makes them a little more special; they've been given a new purpose and the purpose is for beauty.

In terms of using real plants and flowers, I created a project a few years ago to project on flowers. I created animations, usually just abstractions, and carefully mapped it onto each one.

I'm not sure why I stopped - maybe life got in the way, and maybe I had bigger concepts (in terms of spaces) in mind. But I always meant to get back into it. It wasn't until I actually saw another artist's work that a friend shared with me that was executed beautifully, that really lit a fire under my ass. So I made it the utmost importance to buy some flowers.

What sets this new series apart from the artist's work I saw, and my previous work with plants and lights, is the intentional meaning behind ikebana. With this traditional Japanese floral arrangement, flowers aren't just placed in a vase - it's a meditation. The meditative practice of creating harmonious, visual forms with the flowers. Almost like sculpture and poetry combined. So I tried different combinations, tried to create a unique shape. Then complimented it with light.

I used some animated projections I’ve made, as well as LEDs and iridescent light play. And it's the first of many.

[hellohaters]

Carolina Spencer

[mixedem0tions]

my 1968 Chevrolet El Camino covered in flowers by floral artist Under New Management.

[jetee]

'Gravity and Grace' by Shinji Omaki

In Gravity and Grace (2023), Japanese artist Shinji Omaki plays aronund with the existencial issue.

The installation, depicting magnificent vessels of flora and fauna, uses light to enpower shadows that cover the walls of the gallery.

[thedeadbelle]

"The Hated Flower"

Rebecca Louise Law

2014

[myobt]

The Flower Artist

Azuma Makoto (more…) “”

[sweetpeaslut]

Carolin Ruggaber

[ginolalas]

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[blistexenthusiast]

Ant Hamlyn, Shroom Terrarium | Carnivore Terrarium

[jonathanferraragallery]

Garden of Earthly Delights, 2016 - Carlton Scott Sturgill

[woundgallery]

Damien Hirt, In and out of love, butterflies and household gloss on canvas, 1991

[love-for-carnation]

Designed as a carnation, emerald and diamond brooch, early 19th Century