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Onzai composes what has fallen. Branches, moss, stone, seed pod, sola flower, held together with intention. Each piece emerges from a conversation between what has ended and what remains.
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Fields of small heads, dense and quiet.
A meadow is what you make when you stop expecting a forest. These pieces hold many small bright things in a single low vessel, and they ask very little. You arrive, you stand, you stay a while.
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Heads of things, held on stems in the air.
Seedpods and woven spheres and dried orbs rise from their vessels the way stars rise from dark water. Each one is a small point of finished growth. Together they make a figure.
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Wood that has finished and remains.
These pieces are about structure. Bare branches, dark twigs, a single arc of dried manzanita. The forms are honest, the silhouettes precise. Nothing pretends to be alive.
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Surfaces of slow change.
Moss does not ask to be the subject. It is usually the floor of someone else's arrangement. These pieces invert that and let moss compose itself, in mound, in cloud, in topiary, in landscape.
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Layered compositions of bloom and bone.
A garden is the most ancient of arrangements, and the least defended. These pieces gather flower and branch and pod and stone into one vessel and let them argue, gently, about what belongs.
Process
A piece is the patient end of three steady acts. Each begins where the previous one quieted.
We walk the desert and the canyons. What we bring back has already finished its first life, a branch the wind shaped, a stone the rain wore, moss from a north-facing wall.
Pieces sit in the studio until they ask to be combined. A composition emerges slowly. Sometimes a single arrangement takes weeks. Nothing is forced into a form it does not want.
Each finished work is one of one. We deliver locally in Palm Springs when possible, and we crate carefully for those further afield. A piece is meant to live in a single room, for a long time.
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Visit
For collectors in the Palm Springs area we welcome unhurried viewings. Write to us a few days in advance and we will set aside an hour.