Audio Transcript
It’s Antoinette Ferwerda and I’d like to share with you my Floriana art story, which is inspired by foliage.
Rather than flowers and blooms, I wanted to celebrate the leaves, as these do lots of work for the plant.
The story finds beauty in the capillaries and veins, which are normally found on the inside of the leaf.
I’ve brought these with ink work to the exterior of the leaf to remind us of the network of capillaries and veins that exist and connections within the plant overall.
Ferwerda's Floriana series sees her fascination with nature take a less conventional direction by bringing life to the largely uncelebrated parts of a plant - the foliage. Interpreting a variety of leafy green plants from the leaves, flower stems, aquatic grasses, shrubs and tress, this story finds beauty in the overshadowed and miraculous patterns in living things we take for granted.
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