Forget-Me-Not

Forget-Me-Not arrived in the studio at the same time the island tipped fully into spring. One day the landscape still felt brown and sleepy from winter and then almost overnight the roadsides, fields, and yards began filling in with bright green grass, cheerful yellow dandelions, and those tiny soft blue flowers that somehow glow against everything around them. Every year I forget just how striking forget-me-nots are until they return and begin quietly threading themselves through the landscape again.

This week’s color became a reflection of that experience of noticing. Noticing the small things returning. Noticing the way spring colors play against one another. Noticing how certain shades seem to hold light differently this time of year. The pale opaque periwinkle blue glass forms the foundation of the color, layered with a soft violet dichroic and capped in clear glass to create depth, glow, and gentle shifts between blue and lavender as the light changes throughout the day.

There is something wonderfully hopeful about this stage of spring. Everything feels full of potential again. Gardens are beginning to wake up, the days stretch longer into the evening, and the landscape starts offering tiny flashes of color everywhere you look if you slow down enough to see them. Forget-Me-Not carries a little piece of that feeling with it, soft, luminous, playful, and quietly impossible to ignore.