These mysterious flower arrangements have been popping up all over NYC during the last few months. On sidewalks, in trash cans, on statues… it’s all the work of floral designer Lewis Miller who wrote on his website,
“Gifting flowers to New Yorkers is a simple idea that I have been thinking about for years. I hoped for smiles, the ones that happen when you witness a random act of kindness. That was my goal, my vision. Create an emotional response through flowers.”
Miller working on Alice in Wonderland in Central Park
His series is called Flower Flashes and each installation has a different feeling. Miller told NBC New York,
“Our Alice in Wonderland installation was romantic, feminine and whimsical.. our trash can flashes are edgier and ephemeral.”
Some are massive and the largest ones are composed of thousands of roses, dahlias, and orchids. If produced for a client they could cost upwards of $10,000…
Here in a blog post, Miller tells how he was inspired last fall to create flowers for John Lennon‘s memorial in Central Park,
“My desire yesterday was to recreate just a sliver of that sentiment and offer it up to the city dwellers and tourists of this great city. So at 5:45 AM, my team and I filled the LMD van with 2,000 flowers and descended on the John Lennon Memorial in Central Park, a circular mosaic resembling a mandala with one word in the center:
IMAGINE
Quickly working in the dark, my team and I created a psychedelic halo of day-glo yellow, pink, purple and orange dahlias and carnations. So bright and joyful, John and Yoko and every Seventies loving hippie would have approved. By the time the flower installation was complete, dawn had begun to take shape and the curious Parks & Services crew appeared. We all held our breath and wondered if our ‘Flowers for the People’ project was about to live and die in under an hour and the only audience that would have seen it was a squirrel and two early morning joggers. But that was not the case. Outfitted with leaf blowers and a broom, they began to gingerly sweep away the falling leaves around our flowers and gave us their approval and blessing with a quick thumbs up.”
Recycling at it’s most creative, inspiring and beautiful. You can check out more on Lewis Miller’s Instagram here.
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