“Flower Abstraction is among the earliest of Georgia O’Keeffe’s large-scale flower paintings, which she continued to produce through the 1950s. In these paintings, O’Keeffe harnessed the technique of close cropping that she had learned from modernist photography, especially the work of Paul Strand, with her own pictorial vocabulary of undulating forms and soft gradations of tone. In this way, she transformed her botanical subjects into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and representation.   — The Whitney Museum, New York City.”- “Georgia O’Keeffe.”

This idea has shaped so much of my art—abstraction, and representation—and got my wheels spinning. So did her idea that flowers are a kind of sculpture with vivid color. I can’t wait to see her art exhibit in Boston next Tuesday.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity,” – Edgar Allen Poe to George Washington Eveleth.

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P.S. Please remember Cambridge Pantry’s request for any one or all of three kinds of salad dressings, which is a drive to get the kids to eat fresh vegetables. Popular but evasive. –

Lily, in the late afternoon, the sun was still over the hill.

Soul of a Young Lily

Flower’s Heart Beat

Blue Heart

Lily statue

My Daily Poe Flower