Amongst the sights of imaginative landscapes and the scents of flowering hyacinths, a pair of hands gently offers visitors a rainbow of blooms at the Philadelphia Flower Show “ Rooted: Origins of American Gardening” now until Sunday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Designed by Tanesha Sample, of Tissa Rose Floral in Drexel Hill, IKECHI is a bridge between history and the present. Plans for the Sample’s exhibit took months to create, as she curated the color palette and materials needed to bring her creative vision to life. “IKECHI captures the resilience of the Africans and African Americans that tilled the land. Featuring cotton, it highlights the fact that they were more than crop harvesters, they cultivated the crops and gardens for both functional and expressive purposes,” explained Sample. “A hand structure that will be holding a garden as if it were ripped from the ground. The hand will have an African American skin tone to represent history, rooted in African Am...
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