from the garden exhibition ideas

i am in a group show later in the year, called "from the garden". i am putting in some work from my last exhibition, but i am also making new work. i think it is going to be a good show, i am liking the challenges i have set for myself. but i am also wanting some feedback or i am looking for a bit of inspiration to finish off these pieces.

the first piece, are these six domes on wooden bases. i need to remake some of the domes, and make them taller, but the idea i have is to suspend from the top of the dome something - this will make it precious. so i will have an object hanging in each dome. the thing i am having trouble with is what to hang in there. it should be "from the garden" but i am not sure how to narrow it down, i don't want it to be so obvious, as a mini fruit or veg. i have been thinking of large seeds, or pine cones, you know stuff you can collect in the garden. does anyone out there have any ideas on what to hang in the domes?

i think they will look good, i am still deciding on colour, might just go with clear, but again this depends on the object inside.

i made these bottles when i was in uni, and i like how the hearts hang inside the bottles, it makes them special and gives them a place to exist. i have always wanted to go back to this idea, and now i think is a good time to do it.


the next piece i am working on used the shallow wooden dished again. i want to cut some mirror to fit in the bottom of each dish and then to the mirror i will attach some plant like forms made of glass.

they might look like blades of grass, of just organic little bits off of trees. i have these small drawing i forgot to take a photo of that demonstrate this much better. then i will fill each dish entirely with these growing glass forms, so they will look like petri dishes that have overgrown with plants. the mirror at the bottom will just add to the optical illusion when you look at them from above and add a way for me to secure the glass in the dish.



kind of like this, but a wooden dish and glass forms.


so that is what is in my head right now, what to hang in the domes and what shapes to make out of glass.

any suggestions?