Fleeting Botanicals: A Study in Time and Texture

An immersive event that explores one’s relationship with nature through the art of handmade postcards. Each postcard is created using preserved botanicals — leaves, petals, and natural pigments — collected and pressed with care. Participants will write letters, reconnecting with the tactile beauty of slow creation and human connection.

This gathering celebrates the delicate balance between impermanence and preservation, reminding viewers that sustainability begins with attention and care. Through interaction with plants, participants rediscover their quiet resilience and the circular rhythms of growth, decay, and renewal. Each pressed petal becomes a fragment of time held still, a testament to nature’s ability to transform rather than disappear.

As participants engage in the process, they are encouraged to slow down, notice textures, and feel the rhythm of making by hand — an act that contrasts our fast, digital world. The botanical materials serve as both medium and message, carrying stories of the earth that invite contemplation on the shared ecological footprint and our responsibility towards what sustains us.

Guests are invited to reflect on their own memory with nature — a flower, a scent, a season — and translate it into a visual and written keepsake. The act of writing by hand and creating with natural materials becomes an offering of gratitude to the earth and to one another. Together, these letters form a living archive of fleeting beauty, capturing the poetry of impermanence through texture, memory, and touch.