The truth is that we just don’t have enough flowers around the studio. When I lived in London, a fashion designer student I was acquainted with kept a few fresh flowers in a simple glass on the only table of her very sparsely decorated and equally small flat. The blooms brought color and nature and smells into the tiny space that influenced it into a nice place to be, in spite of its size.

If we stop and look, flowers enrich the spaces and people around them.

Molly and Kristina collaborating on Project Floral #3

Since I really believe this, and it’s not newsletter and blogging BS, I decided to collaborate with Molly at Eastern Floral on making good old fashioned art. There’s a long and wonderful history of paintings and photographs of our ephemeral flowers, and even if I don’t get to occupy a meaningful space in that history, the effort brings its own rewards. It’s nice to have a beautiful photograph of a beautiful arrangement to enjoy, long after the flowers have perished. Photographs are only pale imitations of the richness of their subjects, but they have staying power that obliges them to us.

Molly makes adjustments to floral arrangement for Project Floral #1

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