Flax leaves arranged to show movement

Our workshop will be held in our usual Khandallah Church Hall venue at 2pm to 4pm on Sunday April 12. Takao Oshima will lead the workshop with the theme from Book 5, lesson 18, Composition Expressing a Movement.

Takako has provided the following notes: “For our upcoming workshop, I am using Text 5–18, “Expressing Movement,” as the theme and approaching it in a slightly playful way.

I will prepare slips of paper, each with a single verb written on it (such as “fall,” “play,” “jump,” or “resist”) and place them in a box. Participants will then draw one slip at random, like a lottery, and create a work using the flowers and materials they have, based on the verb they draw.

It may be challenging to express an unexpected theme, but that is also part of the fun and the reward. Of course, if the verb you draw really doesn’t suit your flowers or container, you are welcome to draw again.

To make it feel a bit like a game and to allow for more possibilities, it might be nice if you can bring a few different materials.

This exercise is meant to test our imagination and flexibility in responding to a given theme. By making full use of your skills and creative ideas, I hope it will be a fun and stimulating challenge for everyone”.