The tulip fields in the northern Dutch town of Anna Paulowna were captured dramatically here by French photographer Normann Szkop and Cesna pilot Claython Pender. The whole set over on flickr is pretty great.
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Every spring, Hallebros, or Bois de Hal (Halle Forest in Dutch), not far from Brussels in Belgium is overrun with these carpets of blue bell blossoms.
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Belgium's Grand Palace in Brussels host this phenomenon every other August, when three-quarter of a million begonias are arrange into a Turkish Kilim about 24 meters wide and 78 meters long.
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The botanical artist Makoto Azuma took his cutting edge floral into the stratosphere with his exhibit titled Exbiotanica. Azuma and his crew, along with help from JP Aerospace, launched “Shiki” (a Japanese white pine) and an untitled arrangement of flowers, into space using a helium balloon.
Arizona-based artist Kathy Klein uses the petals of carnations, daisies, mums and other wildflowers to construct these ephemeral mandalas. She has a 2014 calendar of her best works.
We've seen Fong Qi Wei's amazing time-quilt photos, but now these delicate arrangements of disassembled flowers adds a new dimension to my understanding of his work.
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Malaysian artist Red Hong Yi assembles the petals of flowers to into the likeness of birds. Beautiful.
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These two project ( left: British photographer Nick Veasey; right: Singapore-based Brendan Fitzpatrick) each have a stunning beauty. I love them each.
Animation for the Tulip Museum in Amsterdam
From the Himalayan mountain range through the Turkish Court to the Netherlands, the story of how tulips got to be the Dutch symbol that they are.
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Atlanta-based installation artist Gyun Hur creates arrangements of materials.
She explains:
“Narratives of labor, loss, and place are vital elements in [these] constructions of a specific visual and psychological space. Through the menial process of making, selective collections of found objects transform into a poignant residuum of the past and the present. A sentimental installment of materials and insertion of a physical body facilitate an occupied territory as a platform for opened dialogues, both internal and external.”
Mary Oliver reading three poems at Emory University. She reads 'Tom Dance's Gift of a White Bark Pinecone,' 'Wild Geese,' and 'Peonies.'
photo by flickr/Jessy Roos
Peonies
by Mary Oliver
This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready
to break my heart
as the sun rises,
as the sun strokes them with his old, buttery fingers
and they open —
pools of lace,
white and pink —
and all day the black ants climb over them,
boring their deep and mysterious holes
into the curls,
craving the sweet sap,
taking it away
to their dark, underground cities —
and all day
under the shifty wind,
as in a dance to the great wedding,
the flowers bend their bright bodies,
and tip their fragrance to the air,
and rise,
their red stems holding
all that dampness and recklessness
gladly and lightly,
and there it is again —
beauty the brave, the exemplary,
blazing open.
Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden,
and softly,
and exclaiming of their dearness,
fill your arms with the white and pink flowers,
with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling,
their eagerness
to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are
nothing, forever?
Mary Oliver will certainly be a poet I often reach for. She is a fearless and talented student of the world.
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