Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

Interview: Tim O’Brien and Jan Fabricius on picking paper flowers

Writing songs with Tom Paxton was like going fishing with a friend. Paper flowers generally symbolise enduring love, remembrance, and creativity. Unlike fresh flowers, they don’t fade or die, memorialising a love that lasts or a memory that endures. They can also be a symbol of resourcefulness, using readily available materials to create something beautiful and meaningful, for instance, Japanese origami. For the past ten years, Tim O’Brien has p…