Museum/Garden copy
Seed Sower and Seed are displayed together in the FLORIGAMI IN THE GARDEN traveling exhibition
Price available upon request
Up to one year to produce
Nature is inspiringly collaborative and interdependent. The oak tree provides shelter and food for the squirrel, and the squirrel buries acorns to eat later and doesn’t retrieve them all, leaving some as seeds to grow into new trees. This two-piece sculpture is the result of collaboration involving three artists.
Origami master and papermaker Michael G. LaFosse created the squirrel design using in his own handmade paper. Through duogami, a technique of folding a single uncut square of paper with a different color on each side, Michael produced a dark brown squirrel with a pale colored chest. The acorn was designed by Beth Johnson, internationally recognized for her innovative and original origami forms. Beth folded the acorn using two sheets of paper and computer-aided design techniques to produce the seed pod’s complex curves.
“I see a parallel between the story of a seed and a blank piece of paper,” Kevin says. “Both begin small and humble. One dreams of becoming a great big tree and the other becomes whatever you can imagine. The collaborative aspect of this artwork—and the natural world—reinforces the reality that we need to work together if we want to plant big ideas into the world.”
