Painted plants

Sometimes you come across an artist who takes your breath away. Discovering Sophie Parker/WIFE’s work did that to me. Here’s a little about her design philosophy as stated on her website: WIFE is a botanical studio based in Brooklyn specializing in plant based artworks and custom arrangements.

Looking at Sophie Parker’s floral designs, it’s hard to tell what’s natural and what’s artificial. The pieces she creates look alternately like living plants and like human-made sculptures. In a way, they are all both. Parker paints on and arranges plants with results that play with the difference between organic and handmade. Some motifs, like the checkerboard pattern, immediately show the human hand.Others look like they could exist in nature.

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This perky little plant is a delight for both their cute round leaves and a penchant for producing plantlets (pups) that are easily propagated—the reason they're also known as the "friendship plant".

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