Our Own Ikebana
Last week, Morikami staff and volunteers sat down to a display of flower stems, bright green stalks and a puzzling diagram of shapes and dashes – a blueprint for ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement. Cheiko Mihori, Founder and Director of the Florida Branch of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, would guide us in making our own. Ikebana is all about angles, we learned. The three main elements of the arrangement stand at three different angles from a straight imaginary line down the middle. But of course, we’re dealing with three dimensions; …