256/365: clematis seeds
The Virgin’s Bower clematis is an aggressive vine. Covered with small white, star-shaped flowers in summer, by early fall the whole vine is a hairy mess of seeds. I can’t help thinking of truffula tufts (or a raging case of bed head).
They have a certain disheveled charm. Then, after a while, they just look messy. It’s a fine line.
It all started here, back in February. I got really fascinated with creating minimal, linear compositions with sticks, stems, & snow. At the time, I wondered how I might explore the series in other seasons, since part of what really made it work was the solid white backdrop.
Today’s image works on the same aesthetic with the bare stems left over from winter hanging over the black water of the creek. It looks like the winter scene in negative.
97/365: plant stems over the creek
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I couldn’t capture the vernal equinox any better than this. The sun is calling. Life is pushing through. Happy spring!
78/365: sprout
Signs of life, like ghostly apparitions, like memories fading before our eyes.
41/365: trio
Back to back bare bones (see yesterday’s post). I’m in love with this idea – it was all I could think about on my walk yesterday.
35/365: stalks
I love to study what remains – the architecture – the form & frame of the skeleton when the luscious flesh of leaves and blush of petals is removed. It is a stark, and altogether different kind of beauty.
3/365: milkweed
(*native: possibly the first in a new series of native plant portraits. )
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