Synthesis of the underground with floristics. Different atmosphere dictates the appropriate choice of colors, accessories and mood

Passing the gallery

Text: Anna Hatckevich

A photo: Oleg Kwasuk

Magazine: Na (47) 2001

For any of us, it has its limits: someone considers himself a citizen of the planet, and for someone enough favorite room. Someone will happily sing "my address is not a house or a street ...", but for someone, every way out of their small, but so cozy little world is almost stress. After all, the contrast between it and the surrounding reality is very great ... But the colors are comfortable everywhere: among household things that have their own history, and on the cold geometry of the tile, and on the stairs in the staircase, which has seen a lot over the years ... The main thing is "settled" flowers in his habitat was not indifferent to them and had fantasy. Flowers can be given, and accordingly - to receive as a gift. They can be grown on the site or at home, on the windowsill. You can love them, you can talk with them, and also play. Do not think that a person playing with flowers is a diagnosis. Not at all, this is a profession. And pretty serious. Flowers are able to emphasize the style of the interior on the principle of similarity or contrast. These innate "soloists" may well act on secondary roles, such as the orchid, which, with its "coloring" and texture, echoes the rough surface of the vase, the worn-out wardrobe and the stylized TV case. Such multiple similarities create a feeling of complete harmony, as in classical music and architecture. The square plates on the tiled floor are also a kind of hymn to repetitions that personify the orderliness of life: four corners, four flowers, four ... However, you can not continue: there are almost only four, but the fifth plate creates dynamics and does not allow you to be bored in such a right square world. Almost a cozy and refined bourgeois corner on a rusty table top coffee table has a dream and pleasant memories thanks to its nostalgic muted shades and a retro-style radio. But this quiet habitat ends at the front door - in our case, the boundary of order and comfort. And there, “on the other side,” everything is different: the traces of a human stay are not in its best manifestations affect the style of the composition, the choice of plant material and accessories. This is a prickly aloe, and some incredibly aggressive anthuriums, and vases made of non-galvanized iron. If it were not for the third floor, the term "underground" would be appropriate not only figuratively but also in the literal sense of the word. It may be due to the existence of this trend, which denies restrictions and conventions, breeders "invent" such shocking instances - affect fashion and habitat. After all, once having seen “the art of slums” - graffiti - we are no longer able to wrest this impression from our memory, and first experienced a shock, then we get used to it and “reclaim” it, introducing a new style in printing and video clips. So please love and favor: the synthesis of the underground with floristics has a place to be.