The "Nightfall" Flower in Halfland

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This is the Nightfall Flower in this land.

In daylight, it's the colors of a setting sun.

And as it slowly closes at Dusk, darkness begins to descend each night.

Flower's center from paper yarn, bound and trimmed.

Petals made from Italian crepe paper glued to 30 gauge steel wire loops.

Assembled and finished with acrylic paint washes.

Each petal is positionable by hand to open and close like a natural flower.

At least a fly thought so.

I had initially attempted to attach petal shapes to a wire mandala for the opening flower mechanism. It was starting to work but I moved on to a solution I preferred. Not one to be wasteful of the time spent, I thought I'd pivot and make the petals a simple manual closing flower on a regular wire stem.

One idea lead to another, and it soon became the Nightfall Flower. It will be a nice transitional device outside Rana's evening window as part of the various movements demonstrating the third Akt of "Dusk" as the snail puppet lumbers through the grass, transforming into Akt four of "Dark" right before Tarn the crow arrives.