Dried Branches and Flowers: Plants Without Water

Dried Branches and Dried Flowers: Plants Without Water
A set of dried plant materials as long-term decor. A large coarse pottery jar holds three to five dried tree branches, with their curved and outward-spreading forms, over one meter in length, creating large-scale lines; elsewhere, a bundle of dried pampas grass or reeds, faded to a beige-gold color with fluffy plumes; on a shelf, several dried seed pods and a branch of silver-leaved eucalyptus. Their colors are all low-chroma browns, grays, and beiges, without the saturated colors of fresh flowers. Being dried, their forms are fixed and permanent, with branches casting clear and complex shadows on the wall. The rest of the space is left blank.
Avoid: Using dyed dried flowers, making the quantity excessive and cluttered, using fresh flowers and artificial flowers, pruning branches into symmetrical shapes.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組乾燥的植物材料作為長期的陳設。一只大型的粗陶甕裡插著三到五枝乾燥的樹枝,枝條的姿態彎曲而向外伸展,長度超過一公尺,構成大尺度的線條;另一處是一束乾燥的芒草或蒲葦,顏色是褪過的米金,穗子蓬鬆;層板上放著幾個乾燥的果莢與一枝銀葉桉。它們的顏色都是低彩度的褐、灰與米,沒有鮮花的飽和色。因為是乾燥的,姿態是固定而永久的,枝條在牆上投下清楚而複雜的陰影。空間其餘部分留白。避免:使用染色的乾燥花、把數量做得過多變成雜亂、使用鮮花與人造花、把枝條修剪成對稱的形狀。