Because her movement is now limited, Ruffner works with a team of artists and designers who help bring her vision to life.
She calls it a benign dictatorship.
“I’m the one saying green here, yellow there, but they’re the ones who are actually doing it,” she says.
She and her team recently finished a 28-foot [8.5 meter] high flowerpot made of steel and aluminum, installed in downtown Seattle.
Artist Ginny Ruffner stands in front of her 28-foot [8.5 meter] aluminum-and-steel flowerpot. Seattle, Washington, 2011.
And Ruffner hasn’t stood still since.
She was recently honored at the Smithsonian’s prestigious Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., with a special screening of an award-winning film about her life called “A Not So Still Life, the Ginny Ruffner Story,” by filmmaker Karen Stanton.
And, in a current exhibit at the Maurine Littleton Gallery in Washington, art fans were able to see the glass flower sculptures for which she’s famous. Also, a collection of prints and drawings Ruffner says were inspired by scientific readings.
“She uses her imagination and her mind to put together shapes and forms and subjects in a way that you haven’t seen,” says gallery owner Maurine Littleton, who has known Ruffner for more than 25 years.
It’s been a long journey, but Ruffner says the hardest part has not been the physical challenge.
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