Ash Garden and Floating Blossoms
In Ash Garden, Trinity Bird explores the fragile interplay between destruction and renewal. Paper flowers, delicately crafted and stained with black ink, echo the lingering shadows of tragic historical events and the quiet weight they leave behind.
The work also portrays the human capacity to rise from devastation, to find hope amongst the remnants, and to create beauty from sorrow. The contrast between the purity of the paper and the chaos of the ink invites viewers to reflect on memory, trauma, and the enduring power of life.
Yet, even in their marred forms, the blossoms endure—offering a poignant symbol of resilience, beauty, and the human will to heal.
Invited to present this as the opening exhibit of Ashes to Blossoms, Trinity hopes her creation becomes a gentle call to remembrance, while also serving as a poetic expression of the creative spirit that continues to bloom through adversity.
Her multi-media installation, Floating Blossoms, provide the audience with a space to reflect on nature's beauty and its role in today's world. As people become increasingly connected online and leaving behind nature to move to larger cities, her message is to bring more emphasis to the value of the natural world.
In contrast to Ash Garden, which acts as a mirror to human experience, Floating Blossoms offers the audience a physical space within itself to meditate on both the personal and collective experience of birth, loss, and remembrance. It mimics this scattering of the cherry blossom petals as they enter the final stage of their life. The paper petals seem to float in front of the viewer, stripped of their colour and interplaying with the light of their surroundings.
Floating Blossoms: Drawing inspiration from the Japanese practice of shinrin-yoku, or forest bathing—the mindful act of spending time in forests to support mental and physical wellbeing—this immersive paper installation invites viewers to move gently through cascading sakura blossoms, enveloped in an atmosphere of softness, stillness, and memory.
The work offers a contemplative space for reflecting on the fragility and resilience of life, echoing the fleeting nature of cherry blossoms. By becoming part of the piece, the audience is encouraged to meditate on themes of loss, renewal, and the quiet power of nature.