Flower Market

I, like roughly 35000 other people, lined up for hours to go to C J Hendry's Flower Market. I discovered her when she put the pool in the desert and have been following on Instagram ever since.

I love her drawings best - they are amazingly life like but when I read this was coming to Sydney, I knew I had to put aside the day.

I did take my book for the line, assuming it would be at least 2 hours, but it was closer to 3! I didn't read houwever, as I got chatting in a small group and we had a fun time.

I had not realised people would go to buy the flowers to resell! I assumed everyone was there for the experience, and as life is now lived these days, to take photos for Instagram and clips for TikTok. However, a bunch of the already sold out natives, by the time I arrived were on ebay for $600 when I was instructed to look! Given they would have cost the person $25, that's an incredible mark up and I felt very naive. Individual stems were listed for $30 instead of the $5 they cost.

We discussed how there were 2 sorts of people in the line, those that wanted to profit, and those that just wanted to expereince it. I debated getting a second bunch to sell but in the end decided against it.

While I hoped to just buy one of each of the natives, I ended up with a bigger bunch of the other flowers.

They make me smile every time I walk past, so they are doing their thing.

The biggest treat (other than the free fairybread while I stood in line over lunch - thank you Pandora) was the 4 drawings she'd hung on the back wall. They looked so much like photos. It was a real highlight for me to actually see some of her works in person!

I do believe the real value of art is enjoyment but the commerical world proves me wrong again and again!

I believe Singapore is next, and you also get a Juju exhibition. Lucky ducks! Will be watching for those photos from afar!

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