{"id":99243,"date":"2024-03-20T12:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T22:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/?p=99243"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:20:29","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T19:20:29","slug":"ren-macdonald-balasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/ren-macdonald-balasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Girl, Plant Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ren MacDonald talks about her new floral installation at the Lyon Arboretum\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aXdjtMGX6Ls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ren MacDonald-Balasia\u2019s floral sculptures defy convention \u2014 and that\u2019s why folks are drawn to them.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ren MacDonald-Balasia can\u2019t say for certain where her plant visions come from. Maybe something caught her eye while she was walking down Woodlawn Drive in M\u0101noa \u2014 an odd twig or a tangle of wet leaves on the asphalt \u2014 or maybe it was the piles of longan and star fruit she passed in Chinatown.<br \/>\nShe\u2019s got a thing for fruit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my wedding, I wanted there to be a heavy fruit element in everything and I was going to Chinatown and looking at all the fruit available and I was like, you know what would be cool is if every table, instead of there being a number, if there were a fruit,\u201d she says. \u201cLike the betel nut table or the banana table or the mango table or the lychee table \u2014 which was my table. I requested that. I was like, \u2018Could I please have the lychee table?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou couldn\u2019t even see the person across from you. It was just mountains on the table. It was insane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though she lives, breathes and makes her living arranging flowers, MacDonald-Balasia doesn\u2019t consider herself a florist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s weird when people call me a florist,\u201d she says. \u201cI don\u2019t even think of myself as an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She describes her work \u2014 wild, pulpy, tentacled configurations that tower and cascade in vivid hues \u2014 as just stuff she has to get out of her system.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s also a way to defend the weird and uncomfortable,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd that comes across to people as, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s art, that\u2019s a sculpture,\u2019 because it\u2019s not your stereotypical floral arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forget fruit. She once incorporated fish into a design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought it was beautiful,\u201d she says. \u201cI wove together a bunch of dried fish, then used that with coconut husks and orchids. That was off-putting in the sense that it was smelly and weird, like it wasn\u2019t your typical arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, she took her skills to the next level by designing a piece that incorporated hylocereus undatus, the night-blooming cereus known locally as the Punahou cactus, for T Magazine, The New York Times\u2019 style publication. The editors wanted a time-lapse video of the Punahou cactus flower blooming.<\/p>\n<p>Simple enough, right? Except the flowers unfurl their ghostly white petals only once or twice, on summer nights when the moon is full or gibbous. Their fleeting florescence lasts mere hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI literally had to study night-blooming cereus and scope them out for months,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI was trying to see when they would bloom, if they could survive out of water, if they would open and close out of water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She made a display out of a giant slab of lava rock for the still-sleeping succulents and stayed up all night with the photographer on the evening of the shoot.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_99244\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99244\" src=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"626\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg 800w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg?resize=450,352 450w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg?resize=768,601 768w, https:\/\/hawaii.carpentermediagroup.com\/midweekpro\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2024\/03\/mw-cover-ren-macdonald-032024-lt004.jpg?resize=335,262 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-99244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Lawrence Tabudlo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cTo this day I think a lot of people who see the video think it was filmed out in nature,\u201d she says. \u201cThey have no idea I actually made that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to cut all the blooms, so it was timed to be closed and just start opening (for the shoot). So, I had a two-hour window from when I cut it to when I had to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald-Balasia, who splits her time between Hawai\u2018i and Los Angeles, was recently back in town to work on a floral installation sponsored by the Garden Club of Honolulu. Members of the club saw her work in T Magazine, followed her on social media and ultimately asked her to speak at their annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so excited (our members) found her style interesting because Ren is a bit \u2018out there\u2019 compared to past guest floral design presenters,\u201d says Garden Club of Honolulu president Jan Tucker. \u201cThere\u2019s so much freedom, fun, beauty and curiosity in her work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald-Balasia agreed to come, but instead of a talk, she offered to lead them through a hands-on installation.<\/p>\n<p>So, on a windy Thursday morning about a dozen Garden Club members met her at Lyon Arboretum \u2014 site of the installation \u2014 to scout the surrounding forest for material. (They\u2019d gotten permission beforehand \u2014 taking plants from the arboretum without permission is prohibited.) <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have so many amazing materials available at our disposal that are from the earth,\u201d she says. \u201cThere\u2019s this pandanus flower that\u2019s highlighter orange or this blue jade that\u2019s this insane turquoise color.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That day they were gathered at the base of a giant Elaeocarpus angustifolius, or blue marble tree \u2014 so named for its spherical fruit. The tree wasn\u2019t fruiting that day, but no matter. With clippers and hacksaws in hand, the club members began hewing the saplings and collecting the twigs that would become part of the structural skeleton of the exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of the arboretum\u2019s groundskeepers were there to help \u2014 and to make sure no one inadvertently foraged protected native plants that might have been growing nearby.<\/p>\n<p>MacDonald-Balasia had a general concept in mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to create this giant mo\u2018o, this giant kind of lizard-dragon-y thing with scales, to honor the Year of the Dragon,\u201d she says. \u201cI think that would be a really fun shape and a challenging shape \u2026 but what we (actually) do, I have no idea. It really is subject to what nature gives us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lyon Arboretum is a special place for both MacDonald-Balasia and the Garden Club of Honolulu. Tucked into the back of M\u0101noa Valley, it features more than 6,000 types of tropical and sub-tropical plants, and more than 7 miles of hiking trails on its 200-acre campus.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s partnership with the botanical garden stretches back to 1972, when the public botanical garden offered to share office space with the club. Since then, both organizations have collaborated on numerous projects.<\/p>\n<p>As for MacDonald-Balasia, the fruits on her wedding table displays were intertwined with foliage she was allowed to gather from the arboretum, and she grew up just minutes away from the public green space, in a 60-plus-year-old home Stephen Oyakawa, a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Frank Lloyd Wright, built for her grandparents. From certain angles, towering, centuries-old ironwood and eucalyptus trees appear to grow right up to the home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the house, you are kind of living inside of a tree,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen it\u2019s windy out \u2026 it sounds like you\u2019re on a ship that\u2019s about to crash. It\u2019s scary, gut-wrenching. But sometimes it\u2019s really beautiful &#8230; like you\u2019re floating in a cloud. You really are subject to how the tree is feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an only child, she was always out roaming among those trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember giving trees haircuts and talking to trees,\u201d she says. \u201cI also didn\u2019t have any pets, so I had to use my imagination and (the trees) really became my close confidants. It was me and the trees pretty much, and I do feel an emotional connection to nature \u2014 trees and flowers and any natural material.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise she wound up working at high-end floral boutiques in L.A. She then became an assistant to world-renowned New York City florist Emily Thompson before launching her own studio, Renko Floral. <\/p>\n<p>Thompson and her team actually made the fruit table arrangements for MacDonald-Balasia\u2019s wedding, which means they also got a taste of Lyon Arboretum.<br \/>\nBack at the exhibit, strong winds shook the completed giant mo\u2018o, sending ripples down its leafy green scales and prompting MacDonald-Balasia and some of the Garden Club members to chase after errant fronds and blossoms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe silver lining was that it made our sculpture come alive, rustling its scales as the clouds moved in,\u201d says MacDonald-Balasia. \u201cI felt the energy it possessed on the last day, swirling in the gale-force winds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole sensory experience \u2014 hands dirty from gathering, the smell of soil and fresh foliage, people working together toward a common end \u2014 was invigorating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe left with satisfaction of knowing we had a hand in building this exquisite dragon,\u201d says Erin Choy, co-chair of the Garden Club\u2019s Floral Design Committee. \u201cThe best part was seeing the dragon appear before our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other club members agreed, saying they felt uplifted by what they had accomplished as a team. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe experience of bringing everyone together to produce a sculpture on such a large scale using almost all green waste and discarded branches was a huge success,\u201d MacDonald-Balasia says. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like coming together to make something as a group. Sharing the finished project together is always so satisfying \u2026 much better than experiencing it alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a backdrop like the arboretum is almost a spiritual experience,\u201d she adds. \u201cMaking something while you are looking at the mountains and the clouds is unlike anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>To connect with MacDonald-Balasia, follow her on Instagram (@renkofloral). To learn more about the Garden Club of Honolulu, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gchonolulu.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gchawaii.org<\/a>. To learn more about Lyon Arboretum, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyon\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">manoa.hawaii.edu\/lyon<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ren MacDonald-Balasia\u2019s floral sculptures defy convention \u2014 and that\u2019s why folks are drawn to them. 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