Mayflies & Paper Garden

The artwork featured throughout the website is created by the project's founder/director, Stephanie Flom. The leafy images that capture the spirit of the natural world are paper cutouts that have been scanned into the computer. Each is created through a mysterious guided process that Flom describes as following the scissors.

The Paper Garden takes its name from Henri Matisse's reference to the colorful cut paper works that lined his hotel room/studio in France. A gardener for most of his life, when confined indoors due to illness, he is said to have greeted a visitor by saying, "Welcome to my paper garden." Matisse's creative process was also mysterious. He once wrote, " I am guided like a medium, pure and simple." Flom has been creating site-specific installations and distinct compositions of this work since 2001.

To view an archive of past installations, click here.

BUY A PAPER GARDEN
The Paper Garden artwork is offered for sale to support the Persephone Project. All are individually handcut from fine papers.

The Mayfly Series celebrates the hopeful return of the mayfly, a pollution-sensitive water insect that recently emerged from Pittsburgh’s rivers for the first time in 105 years signaling a healthier environment. The fairy-like mayfly cutouts capture the joy of this phenomenon.


Positive Mayfly Silhouette 8 inch x 10 inch Price: $48 Code: MAY1		Negative Mayfly Silhouette 11 inch x 14 inch Price: $72 Code: MAY2

Positive and Negative Mayfly Silhouettes 16 inch x 20 inch Price: $99 Code MAY3

Choose from yellow, orange, green, turquoise, blue, and white. Order will vary from samples shown here. Price includes shipping. Back to top. The Seedling Series captures the thrilling moment when new growth pushes through the earth at winter's end. The promise of spring and Persephone's return is fulfilled. The sleeping seeds awaken. They open. They unfurl. Seedling is a metaphor for the unfolding potential in us all.



Single Seedling 8 inch x 10 inch Price: $48 Code: SEE1	Composition of Two Seedlings 11 inch x 14 inch Price: $72 Code: SEE2


Composition of Three Seedlings 16 inch x 20 inch Price: $99 Code SEE3
Choose from olive, tobacco, coffee, burnt orange, navy and green. Each cutting is unique. Order will vary from samples shown here. Price includes shipping. Back to top. Ordering Information To order, print out a pdf version* of the order form. When you've completed the form, mail it with a check payable to Persephone Project to the following address: Persephone Project STUDIO for Creative Inquiry College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Orders may also be placed over the telephone 412/268-1027 or via email at persephone@cmu.edu. *PDF files require the use of Adobe's free Acrobat Reader software. Mayflies and Seedlings are also available at: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Gallery Shop 6300 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15232 412/361-0873 Schenley Park Visitors Center 101 Panther Hollow Road (across from Phipps Conservatory) Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412/687-1800