In our Zoom workshop, participants chose to create arrangements in rikka, shoka, or jiyuka styles. Our sensei, Linnea Storm, asked our participants to explain what led them to choose the style for their arrangement.
For one participant, interesting branches ignited a spark of inspiration for a traditional rikka shofutai arrangement. Another arranger was captivated by containers that seemed tailor-made for rikka shimputai arrangements, the more modern rikka version.
A participant found curved branches that naturally lent themselves to a nishuike with a jodan nagashi line. A container served as the inspiration for another participant’s shoka sanshuike.
The workshop revealed how unconventional materials such as protea, bird of paradise, and dracaena could inspire innovative shoka shimputai arrangements.
As we invite you to explore the photos from our workshop, we encourage you to inspect the creative process behind each arrangement. Can you decipher what inspired the arrangers’ choices? From the graceful sweep of a branch to the subtle nuances of a container, every detail holds a clue to the creative journey that culminated in these exquisite ikebana compositions.
Josephine Vincze
Shibani Sangelkar
Shibani Sangelkar
Shibani Sangelkar
Wanda LaLoggia
Wanda LaLoggia
Josephine Vincze
Lisa Schleier
Susan Quinn
Yuki Kataoka
