I Think You Will Like This: Floral Inspired Fossils by Ron Nicole
Added 2020-09-11 07:10:01 +0000 UTCOver on Instagram, I've been sharing some accounts and creators who brighten up my feed with their creativity and just generally make the world a little better with their contributions. I'll doing a little cross-posting here, so you folks don't miss out. Check them out, give ‘em a follow, patronize their endeavors if it’s an option!
Today: Floral Inspired Fossils by Ron Nicole
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamronnicole
Website: https://www.ronnicole.com (Scroll down to bottom of this page for links to her other galleries)
Every tile in Ron Nicole’s “Floral Inspired Fossils” series is a unique treasure. Collecting flowers around her country home (and some neighbors’ too— with permission!), Nicole preserves them in relief on plaster/cement bases.
Each piece feels timeless. She only creates these artifacts in the summer, when her flowers are at their peak. She’s already working in a very specific timeframe, and then, as we all know, flowers wilt quickly, so there’s a second element of racing against time present in her work. There’s the time of the season and the transitional time of a living thing that’s in the process of changing— which she then freezes in time, just as prehistoric plants were frozen in time and transported to the future/our present through fossils.
Nicole isn’t replicating the appearance of flowers, she’s literally capturing their actual physical imprints. You can touch them and feel each indentation and texture that was made by a real plant that really pressed against the same tile you’re touching and, several lifetimes from now, someone who hasn’t even been born yet will be able to run their hand over the same ridges and valleys you traced with your own finger tips.
The past, present, and future exist simultaneously in each of Ron Nicole’s timeless artifacts. Someday I hope I get to run my fingers over one for myself.
