Originally from sunny Sao Paulo in Brazil, Caroline Yelavic was exposed to Japanese culture from a young age, despite being thousand of miles away from the land of the rising sun. “My godmother was a Buddhist and enjoyed the practice of ikebana and the peace it brought her. I remember seeing her art around her house and the joy she felt when we attended her exhibitions,” she says.
Now a Hibiscus Coast local, Caroline spends her time engaged in the art of kokedama. Kokedama, a Japanese style of potting plants in a ball of moss that forms a living planter using the plant’s roots, is a centuries-old practice that’s making a comeback after years of
