After last weekend's workshops I had a chance to relax, then re-work the arrangement I had made from wiring chopsticks together to create a small sculpture. This time I used some fresh materials from the garden. I have used dieties grandiflora leaves and two racemes of tubular flowers of Natal Glory Bush Makaya bella. It is native to 'mixed forests' of South Africa.
I took this poor quality photo against a rather intense blue wall so that the form of the chopstick sculpture is clearly visible.
This photo is of better quality and the colours are more accurate.
In re-working the arrangement I liked the idea of contrasting the flowing green lines of the dietes leaves with the irregular lines of the sculpture.
Here is another example of this method of making a small geometric-looking design from a number of short lines/sticks. In this case the 'sticks' are from a small forest of self-sown
melaleuca armillaris that grew in our garden. The miniature forest was in the wrong place and had to be removed, which turned out to be an opportunity to use what would otherwise have been garden waste.
Because these sticks are from the garden they are irregular in length and thickness. I painted them red and, in this ikebana arrangement, have contrasted them with two agave leaves and a lemon. For readers of this blog with good visual memory, yes, you have seen the above photo before, in November 2013.
Greetings from Christopher
4th November 2018
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