FLOWER ATLAS: EXHIBITION BY MIYA ANDO @Brookfield Place, Manhattan
Interdisciplinary artist Miya Ando reimagines the year 2023 not in days, but in flowers depicting the 72 seasons of the nature-based ancient Japanese system of time-telling. The installation comes to life through 72 chiffon banners suspended in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
What if we measured time not in months, days, and hours, but in flowers? Flower Atlas, by Japanese and American artist Miya Ando, imagines such a world, representing 2023 in the form of 365 signature flowers in bloom each day somewhere on Earth. Soaring above visitors, the 72 banners create a moveable feast of tactile, temporal imagery. The installation allows guests to pinpoint dates by flower and season, in the process attuning them to the impermanence and interconnectedness of all living systems.
Ando’s work presents physical articulations of her contemplation of the cycles of nature and the passage of time, in which concept, image, and materials fuse to create totemic objects. Taking as their subject the fleeting phenomena of seasons, day, night, clouds, and tides, her sculptural work is rendered in ink, pigment, micronized silver, gold, mica, oil, or resin, effectively harnessing materials of permanence to express notions of transience.
To learn more about her artwork, click on the link:
FLOWER ATLAS: EXHIBITION BY MIYA ANDO @Brookfield Place, Manhattan
Interdisciplinary artist Miya Ando reimagines the year 2023 not in days, but in flowers depicting the 72 seasons of the nature-based ancient Japanese system of time-telling. The installation comes to life through 72 chiffon banners suspended in the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
What if we measured time not in months, days, and hours, but in flowers? Flower Atlas, by Japanese and American artist Miya Ando, imagines such a world, representing 2023 in the form of 365 signature flowers in bloom each day somewhere on Earth. Soaring above visitors, the 72 banners create a moveable feast of tactile, temporal imagery. The installation allows guests to pinpoint dates by flower and season, in the process attuning them to the impermanence and interconnectedness of all living systems.
Ando’s work presents physical articulations of her contemplation of the cycles of nature and the passage of time, in which concept, image, and materials fuse to create totemic objects. Taking as their subject the fleeting phenomena of seasons, day, night, clouds, and tides, her sculptural work is rendered in ink, pigment, micronized silver, gold, mica, oil, or resin, effectively harnessing materials of permanence to express notions of transience.
To learn more about her artwork, click on the link: