For thousands of years, flowers have been a rich source of symbolism. Dating back to the Ottomans, floriology, or the language of flowers, blossomed in the Victorian era when a bouquet functioned as a...
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Hundreds of Huge Flowers Spring Forth in Carly Glovinski’s Monumental ‘Almanac’
“Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything—except itself,” author May Sarton (1912-1995) wrote in her book Plant Dreaming Deep (1968), a journal about discovering a l...
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An Ikebana Artist and His Student Sow an Unconventional Approach to Flower Arranging
“I want to explode the idea of beautiful ikebana,” says Kosen Ohtsubo, one of the foremost conceptual artists working in the Japanese tradition. Since the 1970s, Ohtsubo has been unsettling the ancien...
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Wondrous and Mischievous Misfits Populate Rhea Mack’s Bubblegum Daydreams
On candy-colored paper, Rhea Mack draws a world in which all misfits are welcome. The Massachusetts-based artist lovingly renders curious characters with three heads, flowers growing from their palms,...
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Otherworldly Flowers Emerge from Darkness in Clara Lacy’s Meticulous Graphite Drawings
Nature has always been a subject of fascination for Clara Lacy, who roamed the fields and streams around her home in Hampshire when she was young, spurring an interest in studying biology. Art also em...
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Flowers Entwine Porcelain Animals and Objects in Lizzie Gill’s Surreal Tablescapes
“To have something be uncanny, you must first introduce the familiar,” says Lizzie Gill. Likening her compositions to a dining table’s place settings, the artist paints elaborate sti...
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Krzysztof Grzybacz’s ‘Floral Compositions’ Are Tender Portrayals of Togetherness
Arranged by size and hue, the blooms in Krzysztof Grzybacz’s large-scale oil paintings appear in comfortable togetherness, each individual’s features amplified by its placement next to those tha...
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Tropical Flowers and Prickly Cacti Leap from Lili Arnold’s Vibrant Block Prints
Every year, Lili Arnold’s mother would block-print holiday cards to send to family and friends. When she was old enough to wield a carving tool, Arnold began to make her own, too. But it wasn’t ...