A few years ago while talking shop with another potter I was surprised to find that she did not consider vases utilitarian. It seemed that flowers were an extravagance and did not provide a function in her life. The training ingrained from my mother's constant flow of flora on the table made it difficult to see her point of view.
As I work on this project putting flowers in pots each day and shooting my photo, I try not to repeat the plant material or the form but today I could not help myself. My hope is that viewer will look at plants differently or look at containers another way or see light, shadow and color with renewed focus as a result of looking at the whole combination. Each day I work as purely as I can looking hard and paying attention to intuitive insights.
"There are few live seasons. Let us live then as purely as we can, in the present." Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
beautiful shot... at first glance i thought you had a green snake resting on those vases