Botanicals:
Organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi)
Dried prickly pear flowers (Opuntia)
Stones/gravels/sands:
Peach moonstone
Rhodonite
Citrine
Petrified wood
Sonoran desert wash sand
Earthenware:
Large and mini white pots
White earthenware plate
The combination of organ pipe cactus, rhodonite, and petrified wood sat in my mind for quite awhile before this piece came together. I found a large piece of petrified wood in our backyard (perhaps our house’s former owners had collected some - what luck!) and I knew I had to create this combination in miniature.
The physical immensity of both organ pipe cacti and the trees as well as the processes that bring about petrified wood felt very ancient and ancestral to me, going back to the very foundation of beingness, yet with the heartfelt perspective of rhodonite. The citrine and yellow prickly pear flowers lend a lighthearted balance. And, the peach moonstone just made everything click.
Botanicals:
Organ pipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi)
Dried prickly pear flowers (Opuntia)
Stones/gravels/sands:
Peach moonstone
Rhodonite
Citrine
Petrified wood
Sonoran desert wash sand
Earthenware:
Large and mini white pots
White earthenware plate
The combination of organ pipe cactus, rhodonite, and petrified wood sat in my mind for quite awhile before this piece came together. I found a large piece of petrified wood in our backyard (perhaps our house’s former owners had collected some - what luck!) and I knew I had to create this combination in miniature.
The physical immensity of both organ pipe cacti and the trees as well as the processes that bring about petrified wood felt very ancient and ancestral to me, going back to the very foundation of beingness, yet with the heartfelt perspective of rhodonite. The citrine and yellow prickly pear flowers lend a lighthearted balance. And, the peach moonstone just made everything click.