Words, Photography and Design by Ashley Bailey
Most people view flowers as a beautiful thing in a garden to grow. I look at flowers as the most beautiful medium for me to create my art. My sculptures. A medium that comes to me near the end of their life and we celebrate together their complete and utter beauty. One final celebration before they become one with the earth. Combining bones with flowers makes perfect sense to me –how wonderful to show this amazing growth spilling out of a bone. The flowers will only become the bone too soon.
ashley bailey, owner and founder of the byrd collective, has a varied design background with a strong focus on floral and event design. born and raised in corpus christi, texas, she left home for austin to study art history and art at the university of texas. she then moved to houston where she worked with sarah bergner and rebekah johnson of bergner and johnson design. ashley left texas for new york city to work for david monn, david beahm, aab productions and kcd worldwide producing incredible events. she then headed to the deep south, by way of savannah, georgia, to work as the director of events at scad. it was there, inspired by the creative energy, eccentric personalities, and gifted artists, that ashley started creating the byrd collective.
(Ashley’s photo courtesy of another Ashley– the amazing Ashley Garmon)
