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Beside the Weathered Trunk, Pink Blossoms

A cluster of ruffled pink and magenta flowers with deeply lobed green leaves grows next to a weathered tree trunk with a dark knot. The background is a soft blur of green, gray and mauve. The whole image has a swirled, painterly texture.

Someone wants this piece for the way a rough, knotted tree trunk holds a cluster of ruffled pink blossoms, all under a swirling, brushed-oil surface. It is a flower image without the usual sweetness. The bark and lichen give it weight, and the pink and magenta give it lift. Most flower prints show blossoms alone against a soft background. Here the old trunk and the fresh flowers pull against each other, and the painterly texture makes it read as part photograph, part painting. Plain visual attraction is reason enough to hang it.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski