Stay-at-home orders couldn’t stop eager University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) floriculture students from sharing their floral jewelry creations.
The students planned to display their works at UH’s Hamilton Library and further refine their skills by crafting centerpieces for CTAHR’s 32nd Annual Banquet. Undaunted, the Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences students took to Instagram and Facebook, curating online exhibitions for the community to view their work from home. Their artworks will appear in posts through May 1.
Beautiful rings, bracelets and earrings were crafted from flowers, leaves and even live plants. Combined with wire and ribbon, they are a stunning amalgam of the natural and the created, the ephemeral and the enduring.
Floral jewelry pieces are only some of the astonishing plant artworks created by the floriculture arts class. Under the direction of professors Tessie Amore and Orville Baldos, the students created leaves and fronds braided and woven into hand-crafted roses and fanciful swirls, and more traditional floral arrangements also feature found objects.
Check out the exquisite creations, read how the students found inspiration and comment on their work at @floral_pandemic on Instagram and floral_pandemic on Facebook.
