Damien Koh has been a guest in over 30 European and Asian cities and was inducted into the American Institute of Floral Design (AIFD) in 1996 and the Professional Floral Communicators International (PFCI) in September 2005, being the first Chinese person to be inducted into this prestigious organisation. Koh is the owner of Fleur Connection – studio and training centre in Singapore and heads up the Pui Wa Floral Design School in Beijing. On top of that he is also a consultant for a number of floral designers and wholesalers in different countries. Through thorough practice and continuous acquisition of new knowledge, Damien Koh has reached a very high level of perfection. And he still strives for improvement, both on a technical and a purely artistic level. His highly innovative creations are not only evidence of technical mastery, but also of a remarkable talent for putting conceptual ideas into practice.
Art and the sacred in Mumuyeland
€75.00Despite some field research, our knowledge of the sacred among the Mumuye remains embryonic. In all these acephalous groups with a binary and antinomic character, the va complex constitutes a highly varied semantic field in which certain aspects are accentuated according to the circumstances. Religious power is linked to the force contained in sacred objects of which only the elders are the guardians.