Mori no kage.
Reindeer moss and a single oak leaf, pressed flat and set behind glass in a hand-finished oak frame. The forest's shadow, kept still.
- Vessel
- Hand-finished oak frame
- H
- 30 cm
- Ø
- 21 cm
- Plants
- Cladonia rangiferina · Quercus robur
- Substrate
- Pressed, dry-mounted behind glass
- Edition
- OPEN
- Care
- Out of direct sun · no watering required
From the workshop.
Studio W9 · London
Reindeer moss doesn't press the way other mosses do, it wants to crumble rather than flatten, so most of the batch never makes it to frame.
The oak leaf is always collected the same week each autumn, from the same tree on the studio walk. It's a small ritual, but it means every year's frames carry a slightly different colour.
The frame timber is offcut oak from a furniture maker two doors down. Nothing here is wasted on purpose.
Other specimens.
View catalogue →Hikari, in glass.
A closed cloche of moss, sphagnum and lichen, sealed in May. Settles into its own weather over weeks; the glass clouds with condensation in the morning and clears by midday.
Mizu no oto.
A hand-blown sphere holding selaginella and a single fern frond, suspended over water-dark gravel. Named for the sound condensation makes against the glass at night.
Hane to ha.
A quartet of pressed botanicals (fern, vetch, woundwort, lichen) captioned in a curator's hand and set across four panes in a single frame.