Arial Roots

Studio Gallery, Washington DC

2017

Sogetsu
Acrylic and paper on canvas, 18 x 24” 2016

Rikka: Waterfall
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36”

Rikka: Vally Behind Mountain
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36” 2016

Installation view: Studio Gallery DC, Washington DC, 2016

Arial Roots is an installation of paintings, sculpture, and floral arrangements in collaboration with Sheila Advani, Diana Cull, Fay McLaren, and Rosalie Ingenito. These members of the Washington DC chapter of Ikebana International contributed live plant arrangements and I responded with paintings and sculpture. Ikebana is the Japanese art of flower arranging, a meditative discipline and ritual practice.

Sogetsu arrangement by Sheila Advani and Fay McLaren
Dried and dyed branches, acuba, protea, bleached fern

Line
Rubber hose, fishing line. Dimensions variable

Sogetsu arrangement by Diana Cull
Birch branches; dried and colored azalea root, monstera leaves, protea flowers

Ikebana arrangement by Rosalie Ingenito
Mitsumata branches peeled and bleached, ting ting, nandina, washi paper