The all leaf challenge - October workshop
For our pre-deepavali october workshop, the theme agreed upon was "All-Leaf". The challenge for us Ikebana artistes was to create compositions, using only leaves. Of course, in hot and humid Chennai, leaves are in abundance, and in a sense collecting material was not a problem. However, using them together, to complement the vase and to maintain the principles of Ikebana, that was the challenge Twelve of us gathered on Oct 14th at the ABK hall to try our hand at this, with sensei Trishala demonstrating first off. Her first composition was a moribana . She used a large eart-coloured suibin, with a beautiful jade interior. Combining Clearodendron, Dressina, Pandanus and using the Crotons for a contrast in colour, the all-leaf omposition showed a lot of water, and the inner colour of the vase also formed part of the composition. For her second composition, Trishala used a ceramic nagiere vase. The vase had an interesting metallic sheen and textu