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artisflora

Heidi Schweickert
Betsy Schultz
Flowers as language for human existence
Floral design •Founded on inspiration • Rooted in an ecological experience
We have strong opinions and good instincts and a p We have strong opinions and good instincts and a particular kind of confidence that only comes from having done something long enough to trust yourself completely inside of it, and trust that the flowers won’t let us down. Every once in a while we just decide to show that. This was one of those times. No brief, no boundaries, no quiet voice in the back of the room suggesting we consider scaling back. Just the flowers and the space and the full, unedited expression of what Artis Flora looks like when it’s not holding anything back. We let the installation be as large and layered and unedited as it was asking to be — because the most honest thing we know how to do is listen to what the work is telling us and then get out of its way long enough to let it become what it already knew it was. We’re proud of this one. We’re not pretending otherwise. 😉 #florist #flowers #mindfulness #beauty #meditation
There’s something about a fall tradition that feel There’s something about a fall tradition that feels different from other kinds of plans. It doesn’t need to be organized or decided. It just happens because it always has, because somewhere along the way it became the kind of thing that marks time, that makes the season feel like yours, that you’d notice the absence of in a way that would take a while to name. The apples. The cool air. The particular light of an October morning that makes everything feel a little more significant than it probably is and exactly as significant as it feels. That friend already knows you’re going to send this. That’s the thing about the friend you have traditions with. She was already thinking the same thing. #fall #fallvibes #cozyweather #slowliving #meditation
It doesn’t require a farm or a flower field or a p It doesn’t require a farm or a flower field or a particular kind of life that looks a certain way from the outside. It just requires a small, quiet rebellion against the part of you that has been convinced that faster is better and busier is more and the next thing is always more important than the thing you’re actually in. Fall helps. Something about the season makes the rebellion easier — the cool air, the golden light, the way everything around you is visibly, beautifully slowing down without apology. The trees aren’t hurrying their turning. The morning isn’t rushing its arrival. The whole world seems to be making a case for presence over speed, and for once it feels reasonable to listen. You don’t have to overhaul anything. You don’t have to move to the country or quit your job or grow your own flowers. You just have to notice, once today, when urgency is making a decision that doesn’t actually belong to it. And then, gently, take that decision back. #mindfulness #slowliving #meditate #garden #meditation
Our bouquets are different now. Fuller in a differ Our bouquets are different now. Fuller in a different way than summer — less about abundance and more about warmth, about the particular richness of colors that only arrive when the air starts to cool and the light starts to angle itself differently through the rows. We love this season here. The pace of it. The way the mornings ask you to linger a little longer over your coffee before heading out. The way the garden feels like it’s finally exhaling after giving everything it had all summer long. Pull up a chair. Stay a while. Fall at Artis is worth settling into. #flowers #florist #fallvibes #fall #slowliving
We bring the hands and the eye and the quiet willi We bring the hands and the eye and the quiet willingness to listen. They bring everything else — the color, the weight, the particular way a stem wants to lean and what it’s asking to lean toward. You learn to hear it after a while. The flower that wants more room. The one that’s been waiting to be placed next to that one, specifically, and no other. The best arrangements are never designed. They’re negotiated. A slow, unhurried back and forth between what you imagined and what the flowers are actually telling you they want to become. You propose. They respond. You adjust. They settle. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, something emerges that neither of you could have arrived at alone. That’s what we love most about this work. Not the finished thing, beautiful as it is, but the conversation that made it. The listening. The willingness to be changed by what you’re holding. #mindfulness #beauty #slowliving #meditation #farmerflorist
A table. A candle. A few stems placed with a littl A table. A candle. A few stems placed with a little intention and a lot of unhurriedness. Nothing elaborate. Nothing that required a plan or a formula or anything more than the quiet decision to make the ordinary corner of an ordinary evening a little more beautiful than it needed to be. That’s always been the whole philosophy here. Not the grand gesture or the elaborate installation — though we love those too — but this. The small, considered thing. The candle lit for no one in particular. The arrangement that didn’t need an occasion to exist. Beauty doesn’t ask for much space. It just asks to be chosen. Again and again, in the small moments, on the ordinary evenings, in the corners of a life that deserve to be tended with the same care as the ones everyone else gets to see. Choose it tonight. It doesn’t have to be fancy. Just beautiful. #beauty #meditation #mindfulness #slowliving #selfcare
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