Plum Blossom Night ~Resilience~

ikasu | Stand : AA10

This artwork uses antique fabric from Taisho era (early 20 cent.) kimono and paulownia wood taken from antique kiritansu - chest-of-drawers used initially to keep kimonos.

In Japanese culture, the plum blossom, or ume (梅), holds significant symbolic value.

Nighttime blooming symbolizes beauty and grace emerging in challenging circumstances, as plum is one of the first flowers to bloom in severe winter. It also suggests an appreciation for the subtle, understated beauty that isn’t always visible or recognized at first glance. This is also a metaphor for unused kimono - a material for this artwork, a beautiful piece that has been kept without using for a century till when I gave it a second life as an artwork.

In this work, I empathized the “night” theme with ginpaku銀箔 - a traditional way of silver leafing originally used in pottery. I used ginpaku to depict stars in the sky, moonlight reflected in flowers center, and moonlight around (inside borders of the frame). 

• Art Style: Textile Art
• Art Medium : Textile (antique kimono fabric), silver leaf
• Size and orientation: Vertical
• Dimensions (cm): Height- 73.00, Width- 53.00, Depth- 5.00
• Colour: Black, Silver, Blue, White
• Price: AED 7880