Smoke without fire
in the fading winter sunshine
An installation:
just because
&
just for me
INGREDIENTS:
Lunaria (honesty) seed pods
Small clouds of clematis tangutica seedheads
Flurries and swirls of grass
Plus an occasional backside of a whippet!
a glimpse and another whippet
Honesty made itself at home in the garden in 2020 …
…so it made absolute sense to create an installation from the dried seedheads.
It’s also why I chose to include honesty seeds in the gift box
This was a passion project, created just for me.
An experiment with precarious fixings and tiny details.
My intention is always for my pieces to emerge from the most delicate of structures, so they confuse the mind and defy gravity. Huge scrunches of chicken wire can be too cumbersome sometimes, so I investigated making it as ‘not there’ as possible, using thin branches and twigs.
a 3d design
fireplace installation from one angle
suspended table design from another
Small areas of puffs of clematis tangutica offer variety and interest in real life, but go largely unnoticed in a photograph.
Not helped, I realise, by my fondness for under-exposing!
curling gestures of the sweeps of grass
are similarly more impactful ‘in the flesh’
No doubt this installation will be gathering dust for months to come, but I had fun creating it and learnt some things along the way too.
Win win!
If any of the images look slightly ‘on the wonk’, it probably is, because we don’t have a straight line in the house ;)
