Flora and other plantlife

It was great to meet artist Flora Kao recently. She led a workshop for teens as part of the OFF THE BLOCK program sponsored by The Hearst Foundations and supported by UC Riverside Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts. Great time had by all. Flora led the students through a history of mapping in various societies, then proceeded to guide them in producing personal maps -- hybrid drawings that combined information from the desert of Joshua Tree and autobiography.

Check out her gallery work:

Flora Kao, Opening May 7, 6-9pm 825 N La Cienega Blvd, West Hollywood, CA. The show is entitled "DRIFT" where she is suspending one thousand plants in the air...