Time to Smell the Orchids, and Marvel at the Bamboo (2011/10/28)
   As if the collection of delicate and brilliantly colored flowers were not enough, the organizers of this year's orchid show at Rockefeller Center have added another horticultural touch, bamboo. Lots of it, hanging from the ceiling of the huge tent rising above the skating rink where more than 5,000 orchids are being exhibited. The bamboo sculptures are called Sogetsu, after an art movement created in Japan in the late 1920's and an offshoot of a Japanese tradition known as ikebana. The sculptures are created from thinly sliced bamboo, intertwined and falling from stalks suspended from the tent's rafters.
   Tetsunori Kawana, a Sogetsu artist who recently moved to New York from Japan, designed the organic sculptures and a nest of bamboo for the gold statute of Prometheus. The work required more than two tons of bamboo cut from 650 poles.The Greater New York Orchid Society organized the show, which is going on until late Sunday afternoon. The society wanted to fill the space above the skating rink with something that would complement the orchids."We wanted a sort of voluptuousness of interesting shapes," said David Horak, the society's president and the show's chairman. "We see a fertile and stimulating relationship."
   Still, that did not prevent some apprehension this week as the sculptures were being installed above the rink, some hanging dangerously close to the floor. Mr. Horak was concerned that the bamboo might overwhelm the orchids brought in by more than 70 international exhibitors."It's a balancing act," he said.
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