If I may be frank, I work in the hood. Plain & simple. The area is one of the less desirable neighborhoods in my city, I would say. Most of the homes & properties nearby have absolutely seen better days, to say the least…
However, the way one views the area is large part due to personal perception & what they choose to focus on.
Both myself & my coworkers take pride in what we do, as well as in our place of employment. We try our best to keep the area in & around our shop clean & as pleasant as an urban landscape can be.
My friend/coworker planted sunflowers along the fence line at the edge of our parking lot & they were doing amazing… until someone came along & deadheaded them. 😕 First one, then two days later, the other. Ugh.
The sunflower stalks were very healthy & stout…still standing strong. So, knowing my recent projects & constant creativeness, he enlisted my assistance with this dilemma.
We wanted to continue to do our part to try to beautify the neighborhood. So I created two new, everlasting sunflower heads for those powerful standing stalks to hold. Upcycling plastic bottles has become a lovely and rewarding challenge for me in recent years, & this project fell right in line with some of my other recent creations.
Waalaa…the most recently created ‘bottle blossoms’ have made it thru their first week in the wild. I’m hopefully they’ll be able to remain there as long as the stalks can hold them. However, should they come up missing one day, I’ve already decided to accept that action as a compliment. 🙂
Meanwhile, I love having my artwork on display in the urban wilds… 😆 I hope you like them too! Thanks for looking! 💜
