Unexpected Blossoms

This Thursday, with a fun but hectic couple of weeks of traveling behind me my brain is trying to get back to a calm state I work with. Something about circles is very calming–the way they loop and complete themselves without an end or a start. Perhaps that’s why discs and circles are so regularly set into quiet contemporary compositions but as seen here in work by Meisha Barbee, they can have that contemporary look and still be fun and unpredictable.

This piece has a single element that does this. The flowers. The necklace would have worked with just the mica shift sheets filling in the space around imperfect negative circles cut into the discs echoing the imperfect silver rings. But no … she had to throw us with a blossoming of flowers on the mica sheet seams. It’s a joy and surprise to see them there.

Unfortunately, they remind me of the little flowering weeds that cropped up in the cracks of my driveway while I was gone that I must go take care of. *sigh* I guess its off with me to go contemplate so blossoms of my own.