Natasha Lisitsa is the celebrity founder of Waterlily Pond, a floral studio at 1501 Cortland here in Bernal. She’s got a HUGE piece on display this weekend at the extremely glamorous deYoung Museum (!!!!). Wow.
Waterlily Pond also has some cool events happening closer to home in the weeks ahead. Natasha tells Bernalwood:
Waterlily Pond has been commissioned to design a large scale floral art installation – a centerpiece for Bouquets to Art exhibition at the de Young Museum, open April 14 through April 19, 2015. Last year over 70,000 people visited this exhibit. Last year for this event, we created 15′ tall tornado-shaped floral work named Flornado (shown above).
This year’s installation is Concentrik, another aerial sculpture just as big, at 15′ diameter and 900 lb in weight. Here’s how it looked when we were working on it in our Cortland studio:
The other news is that I am teaching a Modern Romantic floral design workshop at the studio 1501 Cortland on April 28, 2015. A couple of Bernal neighbors I met at the Valentines Day popup shop at Pinhole Coffee already signed up for this workshop. Morning, afternoon or full-day sessions are available.
Oh, and by the way, we are doing another pop-up shop again for Mothers Day at Pinhole.
PHOTO: Top, Flornado by Waterlily Pong on display at the deYoung in 2014.
Bernalwood 
Awesome looking. Very enjoyable art. Thanks much!
congratulations and the work is gorgeous – thank you!
Where is 1501 Cortland? The street is not that long to have 1500 block.
@marie southside at the bottom just before 101.
Beautiful work!
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