Single flowers play the primary role in our gardens and parks by offering pollen and nectar to bees and other worthy insects. The hybridised double blooms that offer insects no nourishment, particularly those grown in glass houses, can seem to have lost sight of their parent species. Seemingly clinical, these flowers exist to bring us something from their esoteric nature. The message they offer is in the moment of emotion that their beauty invokes. This is the gifting of purity that reaches beyond the spoken word and is received in silence.
Florist's Carnation
graphite on paper 16x14cm
Coral Guest 2012
