Hane to ha.
A quartet of pressed botanicals (fern, vetch, woundwort, lichen) captioned in a curator's hand and set across four panes in a single frame.
- Vessel
- Curator's frame, four panes
- H
- 24 cm
- Ø
- 24 cm
- Plants
- Dryopteris filix-mas · Vicia sepium · Stachys sylvatica · Cladonia sp.
- Substrate
- Pressed, dry-mounted, hand-captioned
- Edition
- OPEN
- Care
- Out of direct sun · no watering required
From the workshop.
Studio W9 · London
This is the closest thing the studio makes to a field notebook. Each specimen is labelled the way I'd label it for myself, not tidied up for sale.
The four plants were all collected within a single afternoon along the same hedgerow, I liked the idea of a piece being one walk, condensed.
Woundwort is the hardest of the four to press without losing its colour. Two of every three attempts go in the bin.
Other specimens.
View catalogue →Hikari, in glass.
A closed cloche of moss, sphagnum and lichen, sealed in May. Settles into its own weather over weeks; the glass clouds with condensation in the morning and clears by midday.
Mizu no oto.
A hand-blown sphere holding selaginella and a single fern frond, suspended over water-dark gravel. Named for the sound condensation makes against the glass at night.
Mori no kage.
Reindeer moss and a single oak leaf, pressed flat and set behind glass in a hand-finished oak frame. The forest's shadow, kept still.