ikebana with hummingbird nest

geranium ikebana cascading style

morimono with green garlic

on Ikebana and Buddhism

Heaven and Earth are Flowers

one apple morimono

morimono with cluster tomatoes

more ways with ginger root

morimono with apple

some Haiku poems with ikebana theme

Red onion morimono

morimono with statice

Morimono with pineapple and ginger root

My Nageire from another angle

Here I deal with line and movement. The elegance is that perceived and existent in nature but enhanced by Nageire arrangement.

roses

pink

Honeysuckle accents

zucchini accents

hibiscus accents

 

 

abandoned nest ikebana

Hummingbird chicks grew in this nest in March, now it is abandoned and as they never reuse an old nest is good material for an arrangement.

wabi sabi pear ikebana

vegetables with a twist

 

the pieces are called Vampire kiss ikebana(left) and brinjal ikebana (right)

Mandarine accents

Pera podrida (Rotten pear)

Ikebana and the art of photographing it

Ikebana is an art of arranging plants and flowers in containers, creating a mood and a composition with vegetal material. Ikebana is also image if it's immortalized as a moment in time. Both arts, ikebana and photography share common features, composition, perspective, point of interest, light and shade. An ikebanist should choose to perfect his art of filming his floral compositions. That is he should be a complete artist. Here is an exhibition of floral design photographed by an artist photographer.

Living Flowers: Ikebana & Contemporary Art

April encore

April in Southern California

My first attempts at freestyle ikebana arrangements with branches of Indian Hawthorn, "Springtime"

Basic Ikebana my first arrangement