This week I am sending a brief blog post, having just arrived back from three days in Sydney where I was invited to present a public demonstration on Saturday and two workshops today.
This photo shows left to right; Hiroko Prado, Director of Sogetsu New South Wales, me, and Margaret Hall Treasurer of the NSW Branch.
The next photograph is of my demonstration examples from the workshops.
In the morning an idea my colleague Aileen Duke, came up with for an online exhibition during the Covid lockdowns was the theme I used. It was to use man-made materials to create an ikebana, with an emphasis on translucence. I used plastic file covers, clear tubing, two glass vases and a small floret of Celosia.
In a second example I used white and yellow tissue paper and Dried Aspidistra leaves.
In the second workshop I borrowed an idea from my colleague Akemi Suzuki who presented a workshop on the theme of using an "old object which has memories for you and make it fresh with an ikebana". In this instance I used an engraved wooden picture frame, two altered Gymea lily Doryanthes excelsa leaves and some Lisianthus Eustoma flowers.
Greetings from Christopher
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