Not a studio.
A practice.
Yoan Taway works across form, material, and space, arriving at flowers after years of learning to see.
The body
The first education was in proportion. Silhouette. The way fabric moves around a form that's always in motion.
What it left behind: an eye trained on the body first, the object second.
The frame
A second language. Composition, light, what sits inside a frame, and what's left deliberately outside it.
Negative space stopped being empty. It became a decision.
The making
Craft moved closer to the hand. Less about the finished image, more about how a thing is actually built, stitch by stitch, structure before surface.
The object
The practice widened. Objects, materials, identity, and the stories a material carries before anyone touches it.
This was also where Dayak visual language entered the work, quietly, and never left.
The living material
Flowers arrived without an invitation. Working with floral styling in Bali changed the question. Not "how do I arrange this beautifully" but what is this material doing: line, texture, volume, rhythm, the fact that it will not last.
The language
Years spent letting fashion, objects, and flowers stop being separate disciplines and start speaking to each other. No name for it yet. Just the overlap, getting harder to ignore.
The practice takes shape
Material, form, culture, a way of making, finally given a container. A space for the work to live in, not just pass through.
Flowers as a design material
In Bali, the focus sharpened. Today the practice works primarily through flowers and botanical material, for spaces, properties, events, people.
But nothing here started with flowers.
A practice still in progress. Not built around one medium. An ongoing exploration of form, material, space, and story, currently expressed through flowers.