Natalia Sacasa doesn’t make plans; she follows paths to see where they’ll take her. When the 10-year Bushwick resident opened up Meantime, a boutique shop and artist’s studio on St. Nicholas Avenue in October, she expected to stay open for about five months, like a pop-up. But the shop has continued to present new possibilities for her and the artists who work there.

One of these possibilities is hosting art workshops for members of the community. It was an idea that Sacasa had since Meantime first opened, and she is finally getting to see it take shape. The first workshop, kind of a test run for future ones, took place Thursday evening. The project? Freakebana, “the ugly-cool style of arranging flowers.”

Freakebana, a term coined by Editor-in-Chief of The Cut Stella Bugbee, is a take on ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Where ikebana is characterized by asymmetry, sparseness and minimalistic refinement, freakebana spins that austere beauty into something funky, even provocative, by using found objects—anything from an empty bottle found on the sidewalk to a sweet potato—instead of the traditional sleek vases and delicate flowers of ikebana.