Monday 17 May 2010

Ikebana-Yukio Nakagawa



Extraordinary still life composition from radical Japanese Ikebana master Yukio Nakagawa.Made almost entirely of plant material. Often dark and unsettling, his best works have a wonderful erotic charge to them. Love this quote of his
' when I started ikebana I felt my heart pound from the sensation,
as if I were touching the lives of the flowers. I was hesitant
to use my scissors lest the stems and leaves become covered
with flowers's blood '.

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