In Otherworldly Botanicals, Lindsey Rickert blankets sword ferns, a sprig of eucalyptus, dahlias, and other florals in a wash of vivid, candy-colored light. “Artichoke.” All images © Lindsey Rickert, shared with permission Follow her on Instagram for glimpses into her process and updates on available works.

Zaycman was recently featured in the second edition of We Are Makers, and she sells downloadable patterns for a variety of moths and insects on Etsy.

Today, her sculptures often reflect vegetation and natural life spotted during travel-an encounter with a stray puppy on a trip to Bali informed many of the pieces shown here-or evoke playful, geometric characters, like in her Monstrics collection. She began to produce the mounted pieces as a way to circumvent that process and make the art form more accessible to those without the resources for large, permanent works. Having worked with the medium for nearly a decade, the artist tells Colossal that prior to creating the smaller sculptures she collaborated with her sister on expansive projects that required a lengthy, complex installation in homes and other spaces. Whether a pair of tulips or fanned palm, Zaycman’s translucent designs refract light and cast tinted shadows in an array of organic shapes around the space. She strays from the traditional two-dimensional panels to produce lifelike forms that resemble fleshy petals and curved leaves found in nature. Petersburg, artist Elena Zaycman creates delicate flowers and tropical plants from vibrant stained glass. All images © Elena Zaycman, shared with permissionįrom her studio in St. They mediate communication and participation in spirit and sustain the relative continuity of culture and history.Detail of “The Tulips” (2021), made in collaboration with Jay Rose. Art’s creative perduring constructs are intentional marks of the aesthetic significance attributed to the flux of human life and reflect the human quest for repose. Within these two perspectives art launches messages of specifically human inner propulsions, strivings, ideals, nostalgia, yearnings prosaic and poetic, profane and sacral, practical and ideal, while standing at the fragile borderline of everydayness and imaginative adventure. But at the same time art’s inspiration imbues life with aesthetic sense, which lifts human experience to the spiritual. In fact, it is through praxis that imagination and artistic inventiveness transmute the vital concerns of life, giving them human measure. Although the creative impulse surges in revolt against everyday reality, breaking through its confines, it makes pacts with that reality’s essential laws and returns to it to modulate its sense.

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