JULY MEETING: DEMONSTRATION BY SENSEI PUSHKALA SIGNIFICANACE OF LINES IN IKEBANA ATTENDED BY NEW CONSUL GENERAL OF JAPAN IN CHENNAI AND HIS WIFE

Our First meeting of the annual Sogetsu Calendar was held at the ABK centre on Saturday the 6th of July.

Our Chairperson Mrs Malathi Pandurang had invited the new Consul General of the Embassy of Japan in Chennai Mr Muneo Takahashi and his wife Madam Mrs Mitsyo Takahashi.Thirteen members participated in this meeting.

Sensei Meenakshi Sarin welcomed the chief guests in her address

Mr Takahashi also briefly addressed the members.

Sensei Pushkala had invited Dr.P.D Gupta for this demonstration of hers.Together Sensei Pushkala and Dr.P.D Gupta have brought out many publications on a wide range of subjects including the adverse effect of certain lighting on the human body and infertility .

Our Chairperson introduced the new Consul General and his wife and also our demonstrator Sensei

Dr Pushkala and thus began the meeting.The theme for her demonstration was " Significance of lines in Ikebana".

For her first arrangement,Sensei Pushkala had used a ceramic nagiere vase and used abstract material like aluminium and copper wires to show Horizontal lines, circles, slanting line and a drooping line.The ixora flower and white celosia were the fresh material in the arrangement.

The second arrangement of Sensei Pushkala was to emphasise slanting lines.

She had used a refrigerator condenser and gerberas to show lines.

The third arrangement of Sensei Pushkala was an elegant one using spinifix grass and ixora in a ceramic container.

The fourth arrangement was a scientific explanation of "Energy is neither created nor destroyed",using discarded soft wooden boxes, red coloured stone chips and fresh and drooping sunflowers .

Sunflower seeds sprout in the soil and trap sun's energy to create seeds to store energy.The adult plant withers and decays.The seeds repeat this cycle. Sunflowers display heliotropism which is tilting towards the sun.

Photos of members' arrangements :

Sensei Meenakshi Sarin : Sunflowers and sansavarea in an antique brass container.

Sensei Molly Cherian:Umbrella stem,pandanus leaf and calla lily.

Susan Sudhir:Eustoma flowers in purple and white, sapota branches, sprigs of gypsophilia,in a ceramic vase.

Sensei Chitra Rajan:Thick and Thin lines:Black ceramic vase,canna indica leaf,vareigated pandanus,caesalphinia pucherimma flower,sunflower.

Sensei Divya Selvam:Iron wood leaves, chrysanthemums,limoneum in a ceramic vase.

Sensei Prerana Mehta:Blue and green ceramic containers, A big bunch of Gypsophilia,and a grey pipe.

Krishna Ramachandran:Focus on line. Ceramic Nagiere, Traditional Barani, Ixora showing straight line,curved lines with palm pods. All materials from his garden.