Center for Continuing Education Ikebana Class 2008 Spring

I was amazed at all participants' enthusiasm for learning Ikebana.
It was nice meeting you all, and was a great pleasure to share Ikebana with you.
Please enjoy communication with flowers at home!
Hope to see you sometime in fall!

Naomi

Session 3
Ikebana is participants' work.
They practiced vertical line work this time. Each ikebana work is beautiful art work. Crafting ikebana gives us an opportunity to express our artistic vision through flowers.
All work is a miniature representation of the universe in their container; Heaven, Man, and Earth.

Flower material is irises, daffodiles, and solidago.
Photographing is Lois. Thank you very much.

They are all beautiful work!

Center for Continuing Education Ikebana Class 2008 Spring

Session 2: Floating Style

Ikebana is participants' work.

This time they practiced a floating style.
They used the same flower materials, but each work is distinctive artistic work.
The harmony of Heaven, Man, and Earth appears in their containers.
The longest branch represents a line of heaven, the second long branch represents a line of man, and the shortest represents a line of earth.

Flower material: Pussy willows, chrysanthemums, roses.
Photographing is Lois. Thank you very much

All work is unique and beautiful. I believe each participant has its own Ikebana's story while making this piece. It is a precious moment to touch and rediscover the beauty of nature.

Ikebana Class at Center for Continuing Education 2008

Session 4
Ikebana is participants' work.

They practiced vertical line work this time. Each ikebana work is beautiful art work.
All work is a miniature representation of the universe ;the harmony of heaven, man, and earth.

Flower material is ti leaves, green spiders, and lilies.
Photographing is Lois. Thank you very much.

They are all beautiful!

Formal Style: Main branches are curly willows

Eco-Bana Project: Reuse of a bottle

Glickman Family Library, Portland Campus @ 7th Floor

Glickman Family Library, Portland Campus @ 7th Floor

Eco-Bana @Glickman Family Library

Glickman Family Library, Portland Campus @ 7th Floor

Eco-Bana Project:Display March through April: Glickman Family Library

ECO-BANA: ECOLOGY & FLOWERS [Project of Sustainable Society]

Elegant simplicity, plain living and high thinking. The celebration of imperfection is part of the Eco-Bana aesthetic.

Suggestions: In order to become a sustainable society, I reused bottles and boxes as flower vases. This Eco-Bana project advocates reducing waste and supporting life.

Reused Materials:
A maple syrup jar, a pickle jar, a wine box with used wrapping paper and ribbon.

An image of Machworth Island

An image of Machworth Island

Floating style

Additional accent

Display March through April: Glickman Family Library, Portland Campus @ 7th Floor

Eco-Bana Project

ECO-BANA: ECOLOGY & FLOWERS [Project of Sustainable Society]

Elegant simplicity, plain living and high thinking. The celebration of imperfection is part of the Eco-Bana aesthetic.

Suggestions: In order to become a sustainable society, I reused bottles and boxes as flower vases. This Eco-Bana project advocates reducing waste and supporting life.

Reused Materials:
A maple syrup jar, a pickle jar, a wine box with used wrapping paper and ribbon.

Today's flowers: Stocks, Aspidista, Baby breath

Thank you very much for registering my workshop. It will start from March 6 at 7:00. I look forward to sharing Ikebana with you all.

Cury willow, Stock, Aspidista

Close up

Additional flower: Baby's breath

Centerpiece