WHAT THE ROSES SAID

Roses are everywhere, which makes them hard to see.

What would they say to us, if we listened more closely?

What the Roses Said is a project addressing stillness and time in nature - how nature influences and shapes our human consciousness.  The microcosm of the folds of a flower, with its wormholes, tattered margins and imperfections against the radiant color and delicate beauty of its petals, reflects the macrocosm of humanity.  As within, so without. The camera offers a portal to focus on the detail and manifestation of a flower’s life… and our own.

Fauna moves around the landscape, but a flower is rooted into place. To stare into a flower, deeply and longly, every day, requires stillness and discipline.  It offers a mirror into our own humanity. It is not “normal seeing.”  With time and long hours in the “darkroom,” the flowers bloom in poetic epithets, speaking in tongues.  And the images, layer upon layer, flutter into existence.  It is our job as humans to be still enough and take the time to listen to what they have to tell us.

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower;

There is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Matsuo Basho