Christian KĆun Alborz Oldham
Flower Planet
"Flower Planet Sign," ceramic, made by Jun Kawaguchi, gift from Kosen Ohtsubo, ca. 1996
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"What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", mixed media, 2024
Flower Planet exhibition view
Flower Planet exhibition view
"Corner Vase", flame lily and mirror inox vase, made by Irena Haiduk, gift from Yugoexport, 2024
"Accumulation", cottonwood poplar, 2024
"Accumulation", cottonwood poplar, 2024
"Accumulation", cottonwood poplar, 2024
Detail of "What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", mixed media, 2024
Detail of "What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", books, ceramic basin, earthenware, feather, flame lily, Korean pear, molded fruit, moss, 2024
Detail of "What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", books, earthenware ceramic, palmetto, peppercorn, polyester mesh, plastic straw, tomato, 2024
"Detail of What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", books, cordyline, date, earthenware ceramic, great burnet, lotus, 2024
Detail of "What Reader Emerges From Her Study Simplified?", mixed media, 2024
Christian KĆun Alborz Oldham is an artist, writer, researcher, and ikebana practitioner concerned
with what surrounds production and the lives of things. Oldham is the founder of Flower Planet,
an artwork and school. They lived and studied in Japan with Kosen Ohtsubo, a pivotal figure in the
avant-garde ikebana movement since the 1970s. It was through Ohtsuboâs instruction that Oldham
became a certified freestyle sensei at the Ryusei School of Ikebana.
This one-day exhibition is accompanied by a series of freestyle ikebana workshops and lectures.
