The Elders 1
The Elders series within the British Garden collection presents a dominant bloom in all its splendor, a fully formed personality enjoying the burgeoning beauty of its surroundings. I tend to focus in on these exquisite indivduals when I peruse my garden, taking in the day's offerings.
The British Garden collection as a whole explores our appreciation of nature in both a brief moment of pause and recognition, and over a lifetime... our own, and that of the flower itself. The textures in these images are meant to convey the transmutation of the flower as it moves through full bloom, into decline and beyond, and the emotional energy we experience as we connect with its beauty at all stages, through our senses, the unseen, and the unknowable.
