Micro-Sublime
Hope, excitement, even affection…these can be drummed up. Not so with awe. Awe must be handed to you.
Thank you, Theo Bosboom.
We stumbled on images of his Flowerscapes in PetaPixel , a spot where VERY serious photographers share trade secrets. Bosboom’s expertise with lighting,
Eating Off Flora Danica
Royal botanical porcelain would make a nice gift—for somebody else. (Just don’t put it through the dishwasher.)
The best gifts are free or longed for – that’s our view, anyway – so please to take us off your to-do list this or any season.
In
Enrique Grau: Cartagena’s Flower Magician
A Colombian artist bequeathed over a thousand works to his cherished seaside city, and gave its performers a perpetual bouquet.
In the era before MFA programs, painting was not so much a career path as a craft and a social adventure. Take Enrique Grau. He
Chitra Pothi Lives On
Illuminated letters or temple decorations? Palm leaf painting dates back to medieval India and survives among artisans in a few small villages of Orissa.
Back before there were computer screens to write on, there was this stuff called paper, made from plant material. It’s true.
Vanitas: Mocafico & the Masters, Old and Young
Flowers, skulls, lemons, bubbles, photographer Guido Mocafino resurrects an old genre, eeriness intact.
There’s a skull in our garden. We splash it with water and it parches again. It sinks its teeth in a pot with violas, and when the violas die – it grins
Arthur Williams’ Vegetable Vixens
Aided and abetted by a friendly photographer and hair stylist, a Denver florist unleashes his inner couturier.
After our recent plea for people-centric flower photographs, the cyber clouds parted and nymphs tumbled out of Colorado. They were dazy-eyed, as nymphs have every reason to be,
