Fresh flowers welcome visitors in the atrium of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C. Every day.Ms. Else Sackler, artist and first wife of the museum's founder, left a special fund to provide the Gallery with fresh flower arrangements. A generous and important gesture, a polite invitation to forget everything and immerse yourself in the soft light and in the refined collections of the Gallery.
Since 1997, Mr. Cheyenne Kim, horticultural specialist of the museum, is the creator of these amazing displays. Born in Japan in 1941, passionate about orchids, Mr. Kim was educated in the ancient art of ikebana, the japanese art of flower arrangement.
Inspired by nature and guided by the rules of ikebana, Mr. Kim works silently, attentive to shapes and structure, to lines and form, to the relationship between the vase and the vegetal material. Lights and colour combinations are wisely used to complete a picture not easily forgotten even by those that, like me, do not know the language of ikebana.
I took these pictures last year in November. I met Mr. Kim while he was finishing his work. He was sweeping around the compositions but answered politely to my questions, and, after a last glance, he left the Gallery. Many new flowers have been displayed in the Gallery since then.Does anyone know which flowers are in the Sackler atrium this week?
Photos:
TravelinaGarden, Sackler Gallery, Washington, November 2013.
Links:
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave SW, Washington, D.C.
http://www.asia.si.edu/
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