Something I have thought of since we began this site is a joint online show of some kind. Since you are working on some new flowers, and I have a few in progress of my own, I think that might be a good theme for this show: flower sculptures. I think the contrast between your elegant and polished flowers and mine that are a little more rough would make for an interesting show.
The ones I’m working on now incorporate all sorts of found elements - rusty metal pieces, bits of old tools, steel tacks, etc. I have approx. 12 done now, although my intent is to release a set of 25 “rejected” flowers, the “rejected” referring to their deviance from the “standard” flower I’ve settled on. I envision these as early prototypes or perhaps mutants.
I think we could show some online (5 each?), 5 in Des Moines, and 5 in Portland. Maybe that’s too many. I’m not sure where the flowers might be shown here, but I bet I can work something out given enough notice. Assume you could do the same there?
What do you think?