04/08/2022
Nerikiri expressing a Snail on a Curly Dock plant.
During our Nerikiri workshop in July, Kathryn took us all on a tour around the tea gardens to introduce us to the wildlife on the land, she is so good at pointing out the minutest details, drawing out stories of the wildlife neighbouring the tea bushes.
This is part of the philosophy of Nerikiri.
You can approach your design by zooming in to an abstract detail of nature, such as a colour or form of a plant.
Or you can zoom out to notice the landscape, weather or season of a place.
I noticed a Curly Dock that Kathryn pointed out by the path between gardens and chose to zoom in, bringing out it's subtle colour combinations of red green and yellow, and combined them to make Nerikiri Kinton, a technique that creates 'threads' using a sieve.
This is one of the molding techniques you'll learn at our workshop.
I think this also looks a lot like a sea anemone!
There are still some places left for our August 20th and September 10th workshops.
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