Way of Wildflowers

An ikebana journey into the nature of wildflowers to engage with the perennial cycles of life, death and regeneration in the natural world as a mediation. This work was inspired from numerous meditations at Yellow Island. It speaks to the contemplative space that the wildflowers create together on the island, an immeasurable space of joy, compassion, love, and equanimity intertwined.

The cast crystal vessel emerged over many months of intuitive carving. The vessel has three separate flower forms connected in a triad that offers the containment of fragile wildflowers in configurations highlighting each flower in space. The vessel rests upon a glass base printed with one of my photographs of the hundreds of white fawn lilies that flourish on Yellow island. The base creates a space for flowers or petals to drop into the field of lilies as a metaphor for the cycles of life.

Way of Wildflowers, crystal, lost wax kiln cast, glass panel with photography, 2023, 6” * 6 * 14