Purple Calla Lilies Earrings Moxie not quite gold

not quite gold

Renaissance portraitists understood it intuitively

before there were grasses or fruit trees or anything resembling a modern forest

Some objects carry a person's whole philosophy in their shape

framed by a warm copper border that echoes the aged wood of traditional Japanese screens

Purple Calla Lilies Earrings Moxie not quite goldThere's a moment in late afternoon when certain flowers stop reflecting light and start holding it when a petal becomes less a surface and more a vessel for color so saturated it seems impossible that nature just does this, casually, every spring. The calla lily is that flower. Not the showy, look at me drama of a rose. Something quieter. A single curved form that contains its own silence. Georgia O'Keeffe painted calla lilies obsessively in the late