Can you imagine having your daily lunch in a cantine with enormous Munch paintings on the walls? That's what life is like for the workers at the Freia chocolate factory in Oslo. And they even get to eat as much chocolate as they like. The cantine is facing a secluded garden. This is where Oslo Rose Festival takes place every summer.
I've been helping out with the ikebana exhibition at Oslo Rose Festival for four years now. It's only up for two days so we're keeping it a smaller exhibition. I made these five arrangements refering to flower themes in poetry and literature.
No wind; grass, dark pink rose and wild flowers in a raku vase.
"The most beautiful rose has been found"
(Hans Adolf Brorson 1694-1764)
Re-circling (for Sofu); scrap metal, lily and pine.
Nageire, Variation number 4; Spinosa branches with pink roses in a naked raku vase.
Summer Night; maple, yellow roses and pine.
"Turning strong men into dreamers"
(Nils Collett Vogt 1864-1937)
Further into the forest (Little Red Riding Hood); Larch and red roses.
"And whenever she had picked one,
she fancied that she saw a still prettier one farther on,
and ran after it."
You'll find more about this ikebana exhibition on my Norwegian website, including photos of some really nice arrangements by my teacher Lisbeth Lerum.
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2 comments:
Beautiful, I especially love the first and last ones. Must be my love of grasses and evergreens.
Hi Keith, Thanks for commenting. I love evergreens and grasses too. Takes you close to nature.
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