Komper's Orchid, MM1
Himantoglossum Comperianum
Title: Komper's Orchid, MM1,
Himantoglossum Comperianum
Art and Biodiversity, Wild Lebanese Orchids
Medium: Mixed Media
Materials: Acrylic, smalti, 24 karat gold smalti, millefiori, other glass, leather
Size: 30 x 30 x 3 inches (Not Framed)
Bas-relief
“Komper's Orchid, MM1" is a mosaic bas-relief from my Art and Biodiversity, Wild Lebanese Orchids series which is a project dedicated to nature conservation and awareness. The project, which I started in 2007, arose from a desire to better understand and communicate the value of biodiversity to myself and those around me. Moved by the orchid Himantoglossum Comperianum, also called Komper's Orchid, I sought to symbolize the yoke that bonds humanity with nature by incorporating some Arabic motifs from Lebanon that remind us of our culture. In this composition, I enjoyed working on bas-relief elements that can give energy and movements and blend the orchid itself with its background to express how we should be uniting the natural world with the human.
Hope to remind us that regardless of all else, we are forever the sons and daughters of Mother Nature’s womb.
Inspired by the Photographs of Ricardus M. Haber and Myrna Semaan Haber
Book: "Orchids of Lebanon"
Himantoglossum Comperianum
Art and Biodiversity, Wild Lebanese Orchids
Medium: Mixed Media
Materials: Acrylic, smalti, 24 karat gold smalti, millefiori, other glass, leather
Size: 30 x 30 x 3 inches (Not Framed)
Bas-relief
“Komper's Orchid, MM1" is a mosaic bas-relief from my Art and Biodiversity, Wild Lebanese Orchids series which is a project dedicated to nature conservation and awareness. The project, which I started in 2007, arose from a desire to better understand and communicate the value of biodiversity to myself and those around me. Moved by the orchid Himantoglossum Comperianum, also called Komper's Orchid, I sought to symbolize the yoke that bonds humanity with nature by incorporating some Arabic motifs from Lebanon that remind us of our culture. In this composition, I enjoyed working on bas-relief elements that can give energy and movements and blend the orchid itself with its background to express how we should be uniting the natural world with the human.
Hope to remind us that regardless of all else, we are forever the sons and daughters of Mother Nature’s womb.
Inspired by the Photographs of Ricardus M. Haber and Myrna Semaan Haber
Book: "Orchids of Lebanon"
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