Comments on: Flower art

Flower art

mathowie — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:02:33 -0800

intricate art made from flowers. So simple, but so sublime. [via blort]

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:14:20 -0800

Very nice, but is anyone doing something like this with rearranged pieces of hamster?

By: birdie birdington

birdie birdington — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:16:00 -0800

Oh, I love everything she does! Her paper sculptures are awesome too.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:21:08 -0800

I love it when I unsuspectingly stumble across something that was created for the simple purpose of bringing happiness. Thanks.

By: TrinaSelwyn

TrinaSelwyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:28:21 -0800

Does no one else find those even the slightest bit creepy? Especially the one named Rossetta? It looks like it belongs in the movie MirrorMask. Overall, worth looking at. But creepy.

By: bstreep

bstreep — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:29:02 -0800

That's really cool. But if I were a flower, I'd be totally creeped out seeing the guts and reproductive organs of other flowers mutilated and rearranged into artwork. Flower Mafia? Flower serial killer? I'm sure that right now there's a flower Morgan Freeman and a flower Brad Pitt working on the case.

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:36:20 -0800

a flower Morgan Freeman and a flower Brad Pitt working on the case. I will pay cash money to see this movie.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:37:06 -0800

I think she's insane. And I mean that in the best, most envious way possible.

By: (alice)

(alice) — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:44:42 -0800

Love her paper work. Very nice, but is anyone doing something like this with rearranged pieces of hamster? Not quite, but sort of.

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:46:39 -0800

Great stuff. Also -- her blog is fascinating. Very creative spirit -- and obviously a loving mother, wife and daughter.

By: leibniz

leibniz — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:03:42 -0800

Nice post, but I'm afraid I must protest your use of the word sublime. These flowers are very pretty, perhaps even beautiful. But this is sublime.

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:04:33 -0800

Not quite, but sort of. Oh, man. Oh... <swallows> oh, man. I really wanted the answer to that question to be an unqualified 'no'. Whew, that stuff is really uncomfortable-making.

By: MChristian

MChristian — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:08:38 -0800

Lovely! Be sure and check out Andrew Goldsworthy as well -- not as refined but some of his stuff with flower petals and thorns are breathtaking ....

By: puke & cry

puke & cry — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:13:27 -0800

I too found these slightly creepy. Well done though.

By: nicolin

nicolin — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:15:23 -0800

love it. thanks

By: srboisvert

srboisvert — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:27:09 -0800

If she did this with veggies she would kill at county fair.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:29:39 -0800

metafilter linking to blort has to be some kind of "don't cross the streams" kind of shit. unless you're killing gozer the gozarian, I suggest we all run.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:35:15 -0800

I'm hungry for fiddlehead ferns lightly sauteed and served with a splash of lemon and soy sauce now.

By: Mister_A

Mister_A — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:49:49 -0800

Makes me think of Arcimboldo. Neat.

By: ericb

ericb — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:54:12 -0800

If she did this with veggies she would kill at county fair. Well she's done fruit.

By: The Light Fantastic

The Light Fantastic — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:55:10 -0800

Very sweet!

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:23:32 -0800

I love it when I unsuspectingly stumble across something that was created for the simple purpose of bringing happiness. Thanks. That's true, iamkimiam. (But I have to say I'm relieved she also lists galleries that exhibit her work. I was getting a bit twitchy that she was just doing this as a happy hobby - because that's serious talent there!)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:47:44 -0800

metafilter linking to blort has to be some kind of "don't cross the streams" kind of shit. unless you're killing gozer the gozarian, I suggest we all run. I AM THE KEYMASTER. ARE YOU THE GATEKEEPER?

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:48:10 -0800

I'm hungry for fiddlehead ferns lightly sauteed and served with a splash of lemon and soy sauce now. Thank you, fixedgear, for solving a perplexing mystery for me. I've been wondering what the hell you can do to fiddlehead ferns so that they keep their awesome Lovecraftian looks but aren't quite so crazy bitter.

By: nosila

nosila — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:41:50 -0800

I used to know a 7-year old girl in Portland who made little flower people. Hers weren't quite so intricate, but they were incredible, and this made me really miss her. Shout out to Ilana!

By: Marie Mon Dieu

Marie Mon Dieu — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:14:56 -0800

I thought these were beautiful. Not creepy at all, if you put in in context of when folks like us were growing up. Thanks for the eye candy!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:18:01 -0800

Absolute whimsy, and I love it. Btw, all of my favorite art has roots in the natural world.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:33:19 -0800

This reminds me of a bunch of greeting cards I found amongst my grandfather's effects after he passed away... for some reason it was apparently a big thing in the late 19th/early 20th century to paint creatures that were made out of plant parts. They were usually dancing or bowing at eachother or something whimsically regal like that.

By: LiveLurker

LiveLurker — Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:07 -0800

Thanks for posting this, mathowie. Elsita's work is both fresh (literally!) and creative. I spend some weekly time at Etsy marveling at just how many creative people there are in this world. Galleries and museums surely have their place, but for a real shot of "maybe I could be artistic too", there is nothing like taking a look at how many others have gone before, and at just how broadly 'artistic pursuits' can be defined. We often get shoe-horned into seeing ourselves as the embodiment of the jobs we studied for or get paid to do. Nothing wrong with that, just so many more things out there to stimulate each of us into be more multi-faceted...and in so doing, becoming the well rounded human beings we were meant to be. Nine-to-fivers and artistes of any sort have a lot to learn from each other.