DCI 9up
 
I had the amazing privilege to be a Fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute (DCI) in 2024-5. It was the most extraordinary experience of attending Stanford classes, lectures, and symposia as well as meeting many interesting folks. I made a piece to celebrate this astonishing year and all the people associated with it. There were several formal events with centerpieces on each table, and for each of those there is a panel. Stanford is on the quarter system, and I was there for three of those quarters, making a panel for each season: autum, winter, spring. Many of us went together to South Africa to take a class; one panel is from that trip. The final panel is a word puzzle made from native plants in the Palo Alto, California area. Hidden in this panel are the letters DCI at least five times; how many can you find? The challenges with this piece were that for the four panels made from centerpieces, there was a limited palette and often the very same flowers, none of which I had not chosen. The panels are numbered 1-3 across the top left to right, 4-6 middle, 7-9 bottom.
 
Panel 1 Fall Community Dinner: Gerber daisy, carnation, alstroemeria, baby’s breath
Panel 2 Word Puzzle: borage, wax leaf ligustrum, downy Japanese maple, Mediterranean storks bill, sea lavender, banks grevillea, pink jasmine, nandina, tidy dips, aloe, Chinese pistachio, bottlebrush, sweet William, lamb’s ear, cobra lily, grass, slender wild oats
Panel 3 Autumn: smoke tree, gingko, feather
Panel 4 Spring community dinner: baby’s breath, aster, fern
Panel 5 Orientation Week: chrysanthemum, rose, African boxwood, alstroemeria, hydrangea
Panel 6 Winter: Redwood, blue grama, bird of paradise, protea, wattle, California incense cedar, salvia, manuka, grapevine
Panel 7: Winter Community dinner: chrysanthemum, rose, African boxwood, alstroemeria, hydrangea
Panel 8 Spring: aster, baby blue eyes, cornflower, sea lavender, manzanita, Japanese crab apple, fringe flower, breath of heaven, keyhole limpet shell, Eurasian collared dove feather, cicada wing
Panel 9 South Africa Thornybush Reserve: Coral tree, thorns, spur fowl feather
 
24x30”
Matte giclée print on watercolor paper