Flying in the face of convention she floated off to Australia.
Flora furtively flitted among the flowers and ferns down under.
Flora’s “idée fixe” was finding the perfect specimen for her fine collection.
Assemblage or Shadow Box.
Flora’s treasures.
Flora and her tools of the trade.
The ephemera: antique French document from 1889; reproduction of antique mugshot, defunct Canadian Passport, tiny vintage envelope, snippet from a vintage dictionary page, vintage map from 1921, antique graph from French school book 1848.
The found objects: antique wire eye glasses frame, vintage slide ruler, antique metal pin, dried poppy seed head, wasps nest, antique microscope slides, antique nail silk thread, vintage tart tin, amber with insect bits, antique optical lens, a bit of mica, vintage vial with watch parts, teeny tiny coconut, seed pods from Costa Rica, dried carnation found in 1925 dictionary, flicker feather, small vintage boxes and a vintage cigar box.
Size 9 by 18 when box is open.
