Ikebana transforms the Japanese art of floral arrangement into a quiet ecological paradox. A leafless, contorted tree rises from an industrial barrel, its branches hosting birds, fallen leaves, shells, and fragments of life. Elements carefully “arranged” yet displaced.
The composition is delicate and unsettling. Nature persists, but only through adaptation, perched atop a container associated with waste and extraction. In Ikebana, Kennel introduces an ironic tension between harmony and disruption.