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'FTDs' hybrid abstractions of traditional flower corsages and psychotropic plants

Florists' Transworld Delivery, is the common understanding of the acronym FTD -there you find the flower corsages which inspired the names of brooches--'Pure Grace', 'Slow Dance', and 'Enchantment'. A less familiar use of the acronym is for, Formal Thought Disorder a term used in psychiatry to describe a pattern of disordered language. A coincidental discovery - seemed all the more apropos of the botanical inspirations of aphrodisiacs and psychotropic plants.












Corsage: Nicotiana
steel, nail polish
4"H x 2.5"W x 1 1/2" d
'Sweet Sincerity'
Steel, silver, copper, 18K gold,geode, nail polish
3 1/4" H x 3 1/4"W x 1"D
'Pure Grace'
steel
3 1/5" h x 2 1/2" w x 1" d
'Embrace'
steel, nail polish
3" h x 3" w x 3/4" d
'Enchanted'
steel, nail polish, sterling,tanzanite
4" h x 2 1/2"w x 1"d
'Slow Dance'
steel
3" h x 1 1/5" w x 1"d