Posy Practice
Posy Practice is a collection of 100 experimental flower arrangements where material limits are explored with native, invasive, and cultivated plants and organic and non-organic objects from the New York Bay and waterside neighborhoods of South Brooklyn.
This was a creative exercise with varying restraints, such as reactive and time-sensitive materials, that considers compositional and aesthetic principles as well as environmental and cultural availability. As spring becomes summer, new materials appear, blooms become fruit, and some plants fade until the next cycle. This project is simultaneously a collaboration with a specific ecosystem and a neighborhood economy.
“There were the four sorts of violets, primula, melilot, blue anemones, gith, cyclamen, ranunculus, aquilegia, lily of the valley and amaranth; horse-mint, spikenard, Celtic nard, ambrosia, marjoram and mint; also the basils – lemon, clove, and the other tiny ones – and many other sweet-smelling and flowering herbs. All the species of pinks were there, together with miniature Persian rose-bushes covered with fragrant hundred-petalled roses of every colour, and innumerable others, including all the scented and attractive herbs. They were all uncultivated, scattered in beautiful array by noble Nature herself, with no human assistance. Their greenery and flowers never faded, and they delighted and gratified the senses with unfailing loveliness.”
