Moon Bloom, Swirled White Flower with Dark Insect

Botanical & Flowers · horizontal

A big round head of white flowers fills the center of a horizontal image, and each petal is twisted into a soft spiral. A dark winged insect sits on the right side of the bloom. Small flecks of blue, violet and yellow-green peek out between the petals near the bottom. The flower is framed by a dark olive background patterned with plum and magenta scrolls, inside a thin dark border.

A collector wants this piece for the glowing white sphere of a flower head set against a dark olive ground. Every petal is wound into a soft spiral, so the bloom reads as a luminous moon-like orb rather than an ordinary flower portrait. One small dark insect just right of center gives the eye a place to rest and adds quiet tension to an otherwise calm, pale mass. The strong light-against-dark contrast is the appeal, and it needs no further reason.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski.

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