Anemone

Iwai’s exhibition is “presented as a garden. Its materials are mylar, ink, concrete, peonies and daffodils.” It reflects her working process and the escape from a long winter she felt while creating the work on her “dining room table which became [a] garden plot” as seeds of inspiration took root. Her work is typically 3-dimensional and installation-based but new drawings are also on display in Anemone. The forms in the drawings feel organic, as do the paper sculptures. While working on the pieces for this exhibition, the word anemone came to Iwai’s mind. Looking up the meaning of the word, she found that the Greek root anemos referred to wind and Anemone was the name of the daughter of the winds in Greek mythology. “Along with the sea anemone, there are land anemones, or ‘wind flowers’, so named because it is believed that the wind causes them to bloom. As I longed for spring, I began to see it in the work.”