5 - 25 juneLearn to make paper starflowers. Take yourself on a walk to plant your paper flowers in your favourite tree. I'd love to see a picture of your flower in a tree! Share a picture on Instagram and use tags #bundlesofintention @maijaliepins #relationalbeingscas |
Symbolic of hope, and wishes carried on the wind. An intention sealed with love. Perhaps you wish for more energy, creativity, fun, or confidence in your self expression. More connection, wellness, or freedom. Start with a wish for your next chapter! Take yourself on a Star Flower walkQuestions for contemplation
If you wish you can use your starflower(s) to mark your intention with the symbolic action of placing them in a tree. |
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FREE downloadable instructions including how to make starflowers step-by-step with pictures AND video. Includes how to set your intention for your starflower walk. Available free for the month of June only!
Wishes on the Wind
"My starflowers were the beginning of a wish for more nourishing relations with the world. To come into relationship with people and the natural world, with everything really, in a way that is more sustaining of my health, body, mind, creativity, and my ability to offer something of value."
I was asked-
In what ways might we see the starflowers as a threshold or movement toward wellbeing?
I said — They’re only that in so much as a tree could be experienced that way. I’m not 100 percent sure whether the flowers are that, except for the act. The flowers themselves are not that. It is the action of putting them in the tree that is a movement toward wellbeing. Equally with it being a threshold or portal - they are only that so much as the tree could be experienced that way.
When you first hung the paper flowers did you feel there was a sense of protection going on, or that your own sense of wellbeing has grown over that time?
Well it has, undoubtedly. There was a beginning and an end. By hanging them, and having them last so long, created a sense of beginning. And also no there wasn’t anything particularly. There was nothing ‘wow’, nothing sure, there was nothing definite that if I was feeling particularly wobbly would make me not wobble. But. I did feel like—and I was surprised, I was shocked, by how protected those paper flowers seemed to be because they did not deteriorate, they did not change, they did not get swept away by the elements and I did fancy that—the tree was protecting them (because it appreciated that I put them there in the first place). And that ensured that for a longer period of time, almost like it was conspiring with me, for a longer period of time and every time I walked past I could reconnect with the spirit of my intention.
This was an excerpt from 'Whispers on the wind' an interview about previous starflower installations in both paper and porcelain.
New work on show at CAS this June
Title: Threshold
Artist: Maija Liepins
Medium: Folded Paper Flowers, Cotton Thread
Media: Participatory Installation
‘Threshold’ is an invitation to pause, to feel, and to act. In dialogue with nature—represented by a tree and the the element of air as wind plays with the leaves and the paper flowers—we all have an opportunity to be moved by the simplicity and beauty of a symbolic action. The group-installation of paper flowers in the tree outside CAS represents a movement toward a new beginning for each person who has planted a wish in the wind; a flower in the tree.
Title: Threshold
Artist: Maija Liepins
Medium: Folded Paper Flowers, Cotton Thread
Media: Participatory Installation
‘Threshold’ is an invitation to pause, to feel, and to act. In dialogue with nature—represented by a tree and the the element of air as wind plays with the leaves and the paper flowers—we all have an opportunity to be moved by the simplicity and beauty of a symbolic action. The group-installation of paper flowers in the tree outside CAS represents a movement toward a new beginning for each person who has planted a wish in the wind; a flower in the tree.

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