The Cannabis Flower Art in This Book Is So Good that You’ll Want It for Your Own Home

October 26, 2021

At the arts and culture magazine Broccoli, where I’m the publisher, we explore the subject of cannabis through a curious and playful lens. Our latest release, A Weed Is a Flower, is a 168-page hardcover photography book inspired by the beauty of the cannabis plant and its relationship to flowers. Our book’s intertwined theme of flowers and cannabis inspires various ways to express stoner aesthetics through objects and decor.

One of the best things about the cannabis plant is its versatility—it can be as visible as a pot of leaf on a pillow, but it can also hide within the textured curves of an elegantly designed vase or sculpture, like those created by Berlin artist Yasmin Bawa. In her furniture and objects, Yasmin uses hemp fibers—which are amongst the strongest on our planet—mixed with lime and clay to create hempcrete. Despite being a building material used as early as the sixth century, hempcrete is still underutilized, but artists like Yasmin can ease us into understanding the cannabis plant’s potential as a raw material. To take it to the next level, get inspired by the glowing hempcrete wall at the now-closed Alcove shop in NYC.

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      Yasmin Bawa

      Yasmin Bawa is a British-American sculptor whose practice is rooted in natural materials, traditional hand-building techniques, and an intuitive approach to form. She studied fashion in London and worked in the industry for several years before turning fully to sculpture. After nearly a decade in Berlin developing her practice, she recently relocated to the Ardèche region of southern France, where she now lives and works among mountains and rivers. 

      At the core of her work is hemp lime, a compound of hemp shiv and lime binder used to sculpt the main structure of each piece. This is layered with successive coats of lime plaster and finished by hand using a polishing technique inspired by Moroccan tadelakt. Yasmin’s forms are curved, organic, and quietly present. They sit between sculpture and object, created as much to be lived with as to be observed. Her work explores ideas of roots, identity, and belonging, shaped by a life lived across cultures and landscapes.

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