And the Names I Forgot: Arlandina

My piece, called Arlandina, starting a series of sculptural objects that incorporate common indoor and outdoor plants with an elaborate composition placed into a handcrafted container. Every piece of this series will be designed as a long­ term plant habitat, well­ suited for the display in a gallery setting. For this project, I will mostly choose resilient perennial plants, able to easily adapt to a new environment. Given enough space and necessary growing conditions, these plants will develop and alter my composition over the course of time.
In this series, I will use plants that remind me of places I belonged to, people I used to know, and create a continuum of experience that gives me a chance to re­visit and re­think. By putting together plants that do not usually co­exist, I refer to the place where they can be found together ­ the memory.