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Elemental, floral art installation
de Young museum, san francisco. march 2009
commissioned for the 25th anniversary of bouquets to art exhibition.

size: diameter – 20 ft. height – 15 ft. weight – 800 lb
500 blossoming branches of Forsythia
30 manzanita trees
200 trunks of curly willow
500 stems of anthuriums  
100-feet of copper tubing inspired by de Young architecture

Vibrant infusion of color and dynamic form initiates a celebration of life and all things Elemental.  A radiant central composition of yellow and red branches alludes to the sun and earth, the combined vital energy common to us all.  An ascending spiral orbiting it, presents allusions to the building blocks of nature: the earth orbiting the sun, the atom, DNA, and to the continuous path of life along which we all travel.

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