Large pink blooms on a long silver chain.
This was how i started my year. I sometimes feel confident that i know where I'm going with this, but in reality i think that it is just a bit of fun. The brightness and warmth of summer took me back to a place deep inside where i am still a carefree, naive, imaginative child.
I remember the backyard at my parents house (long before we moved to Taumarunui). Crisp spring mornings, a plum tree in full blossom, long, dry summer days, cicada skins. I want this body of work to have a sense of lighthearted playfulness about it. In a slightly abstract way; these pieces represent my happy childhood memories. They represent something that i can never relive except for fuzzily in my own mind, something that perhaps one day i can pass on to my own children.
I took these photos to try and gauge
how the flowers will look on this chain when hung in this particular way. The chain is unfinished. The more i look at it... the more unsure i feel about it. I definitely think though, that the two flowers should be the lower ones and the singular flower should be farther up the chain. The spongy soft flowers are lovely to squeeze!