My Floral Headpiece for “When Art Comes to Life”

I love working with creative people.  This spring I was invited to make a floral headpiece for a collaboration with photographers Ike & Tash.  Together with some Tawny and Olivia, past graduates of their Street Team project, they were hatching a project called “Aurora:  When Art Comes to Life”.  The idea was that certain girls from their 2018 Street Team would be matched to a work of art and then a photographic rendition would be created.

Using a google tool that matches faces to works of art, the creative team chose a fitting work of art for each model.  They worked to style them up using different wardrobe or backdrop cues, and then Tash photographed them.  She then spend HOURS in post-edit, adding and adjusting these photos to create a rendition of each original artwork.  It was a really neat project and the results were pretty remarkable!  In many cases it was a moving story of the artwork chosen and how it connected to each girl.  I feel really honored to have played a part.  And it was sprinkles on the cupcake when we learned the show would be on exhibit in the Tacoma Art Museum!

The floral headpiece I created was to be an imitation of the one in the painting by Desiree Feldman in the above work of art.  How’d we do?

See the video below for more.

Here are a few behind-the-scenes snapshots from the shoot and the exhibit.