Flint Institute of Art

Ginny Ruffner - Aesthetic Engineering 

Ginny Ruffner loved flowers and created a lot of floral paintings while being in her garden. As she matured, Ginny decided to make floral art of out glass. Her floral series Aesthetic Engineering was very creative and eye catching. She made the stems of the flowers mimic DNA strands, she did this because she was creating her own species of flowers.

This artwork caught my eye as I think that blown glass is very intriguing and eye catching. I have always thought that the Netflix shows that were about glass blowing or glass art were always interesting to watch. The colors incorporated throughout this artwork done by Ginny Ruffner are beautiful. The fact that she incorporated the mimicking of DNA strands as stems to create her own species of flowers was also a great add-on to make the piece stand out. You can really tell how much she enjoys flowers throughout her pieces. 

******Due to image permissions and the inability to take photos in person, I will add a link that is directly to the piece of artwork written about on the Flint Institute of Art's website. 


LINK:

https://collections.flintarts.org/objects/8571/aesthetic-engineering-series-inventing-flowers?ctx=cd3e0453f36c4af3cf7ff8919030f83ec17d99a9&idx=16

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