We had such an excellent time at the India Blooms show at Chicago Botanic Garden. We went as a supplement to our Sacral Chakra Mandala workshop because local artist Indira Freitas Johnson was working with a team of volunteers to create a rangoli installation made of flower parts and petals.
“It comes from the tradition of a woman who paints or draws a very simple pattern on the threshold of her home,” said artist Indira Freitas Johnson, who grew up in Mumbai.
“It’s done early in the morning to welcome the day and bring blessings on her family. During the day, people walk over it, and it’s obliterated. She does it again the next day.”
Like mandala making, this practice can be methodical and detailed, and some would say, meditative.
It certainly was mesmerizing to look at all these pictures of Orchids, mysterious and intriguing as they are. You start to see other things in the shapes of the flowers and are taken in by the bold colors.
I hope you enjoy this burst of colors at the start of Spring. Visit the Orchid Gallery for views of the Rangoli construction.
Reach out to Maria at Green Thumb for more information :)
