Oregon Home - Spring 2024

Oregon Home | 59 These days Weeks moves between the small delights of quick arrangements and the big impact of highly considered works. For this piece, she drew inspiration from the space under a mid-century coffee table. After noticing that she had gathered a lot of interesting moss recently, she decided on the spot to create a moss-carpet installation. “It’s perfect for an athome cocktail party,” she says. First she layered plastic on the floor to protect the materials. Then she built a foundation with attractive barks and glued various mosses, foraged mushrooms, ferns and lichens to the base. She finished off the piece with tiny pots of violets and pansies for pops of purple.

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