My First Basket

四海波花籠, 7"x7"x4" Lemon grass, anthurium leaves, and lily

Green Figs

Today was the last ceramics class at Phoenix College. I promised to do one ikebana arrangement for students, using one of new containers. Didn't have time to go to flower shop to buy flowers. I just cut a small branch of fig tree on campus and did this simple arrangement. New pair of containers.

New Metal structures

Convention workshop

(1) Dogwood, anthurium, and eucalyptus; (2) cork (sheet), aspidistra, anthurium.

9th Sogetsu Ikebana North America Convention LA

Sonoran Desert Study Group: our arrangement features the desert plant materials (palo verde, yucca flowers, and Hesperaloe Parviflora)

Chinese blue dragon tulip vase

It's hard to find proper materials to match the beautiful vase.

Phoenix Art Museum/Arts and Flowers 2013

My inspiration from Iran do Espirito Santo's Twist 2 is the mirrors. The art work is two dimensional. But the mirrors make it look as if it is three dimensional. I made a metal frame to resemble the art work in 3-D. The mirrors in the art work also represent the ever changing scenes people experience. Anything in front of the mirror will be truthfully reflected. I express the mirror with two floral arrangements in their mirror image.