Brandy Kraft’s interest in nature inspired her to create her own hybrid species of flowers
Mankind is destroying the planet. This destruction has made me fascinated with preserving nature. I started with painting flowers—thousands of flowers in all states of life and decay. For years now, I have wanted to preserve their beauty and prevent their extinction.
Then suddenly in my dreams and in my subconscious I started having visions of new, non-existent flowers. I started painting these strange new hybrids and realized I was creating not only new species of flora but I was building a new world of my own. Flower by flower.
After a bit of persuasion, I convinced my husband to leave life in New York City to move back to Sweden so I could follow in the footsteps of famous Swedish botanist Carl von Linné. Each new hybrid flower species I create is now documented and cataloged in a scientific manner as I continually draw inspiration from the famous “father of taxonomy.”
I am building a new, magical hybrid world and this is just the beginning.
When I begin a new hybrid, the flower takes shape in my imagination. I conjure up as many possibilities as I can and then go out on a hunt for petals to fulfill my vision. After pillaging the local flower markets I come back to the studio and rip the flowers apart. I then spread them all over the studio floor. This stage is vital to my visualization process and it helps me to see all possibilities at once. I spend quite a bit of time in this stage as I explore the realms of composition, texture and color in order to bring my new species to life.
هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December/January 2019 من International Artist.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة December/January 2019 من International Artist.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 8500 مجلة وصحيفة.
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