Since it's Spring Break--and I have the time--I was thinking about a flower house for SriSriRadhaSyamasundara.
I had been meditating on it for a while--what would a flower house be like?--so looked it up on the Internet. The descriptions were about garlands of flowers draped to make a house. I knew that would never happen, so I thought about making a styrofoam structure and hot gluing flowers. 
As I went to bed that night I thought about shapes, flowers, and colors.
The next morning as I was driving to a friend's house to work on the garden, I passed a huge pile of bamboo out on the curb for pick up. 
I stopped the car, got out, and started going through the pile. It was great bamboo--big, thick, and green--in 4 foot lengths. 
I gathered up an armful and put it in the backseat of the car. 
Later on I brought it home and, using the table saw, cut it into lengths to lash into a framework.
It took a couple of days to put together and decorate, but, wow, what fun!
I asked a M. over to take pictures and we had a wonderful, late-evening kirtan with A. and M. These darker pictures really capture the mood of that kirtan. (Special thanks to M!)
Jaya SriSriRadhaShyamasundara! Jaya Prabhupada!
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Flower House
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3 comments:
I like the dark ones best too. They are definitely majical. But I think my favorite is the dripping flowers altar you did last year.....major cool.
--E
I like how you ended up with bamboo instead of styrofoam. It seems Vrindadevi herself intervened - styrofoam is a crass material to be used, even in this world, what to speak of using it around the transcendental couple.
Yes, I think you're right. Vrnda devi intervened. I just couldn't think of what to use for the structure . . . and there it was!
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