if we burn our wings flying too close to the sun… if the moment of glory is over before it’s begun… if the dream is won, though everything is lost… we will pay the price, but we will not count the cost ️☀️
mod note: thank you for the request!! i hope you like it!! i just realised it’s kinda simlilar to my fly high one lol. anyway, glad to be back in business and i hope it stays that way
Deconstructing and Resurrecting Nature with Artist Duy Anh Nhan Duc
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(This interview was conducted in French.)
Before sculptor Duy Anh Nhan Duc (@duyanhnhanduc) deconstructs nature, every plant included in a piece is patiently examined. “I put myself at its level,” says the self-taught artist based in Paris. “Whether it’s grass or clover, I will get down on the ground to observe it.” All different plants are used in his sculptures, but his heart leans toward the dandelion. Many people consider it a weed or a nuisance, but from its delicate seed head, Duy Anh can create a soft mandala-like sculpture or the fur of an enormous bear. “It’s a plant that I have wanted to observe and work with since I was very young,” says Duy Anh, who has always been drawn to the dandelion’s fleeting beauty. “It is in dissecting them and rearranging them that inspiration comes,” he says.
Generic, but beautiful nonetheless. Each of those tiny wind dancers is actually a fruit called an achene. Each achene arose from an individual flower of which there are hundreds in a single dandelion head (actually there are only 50-200 flowers per head, but “hundreds” sounds better) . This is where the family got its old name, “Compositae.” Each of their composite “flowers” are made up of loads of tiny individual flowers. So next time your lover asks for flowers, pick them a couple dandelions and astound them with an offering of many hundreds of flowers instead of a measly dozen roses.
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