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Nancy GriswoldWWW.NGARTSITE.COM

Photographer, 2011

There one single thing that a flower can not tell me.

A flower tellsme of love…

There is one single thing that a flower can not tell me.

A flower tells me of love…..

A flower can tell me of creation and procreation; of beauty and decay; of temporal existence. It tells me of the time needed in coming to know anything or anybody, it tells me of patience and harmony, the order of life and of time for folding and unfolding. It tells me of reincarnation and of life and death. It tells me of the need we have for others and everything around us…as a flower will talk if a gentle breeze is there to help it speak and move it and be heard. A flower can be appreciated, admired, treasured for it’s aroma, but only if one is there to smell it and see it. I wonder why they are so seductive for me, I wonder why it is - if I walk into an empty room and if there is a flower in it, I will be drawn to it and take up in it’s space and I find it hard to pull my attention away from it.

I never feel alone when I am photographing flowers, they teach me so many things about myself and life, they don’t hurt me and if I nurture them just right or leave them alone they will live a long life, but then in the end, they leave me and I learn of loss and sadness too….then they teach me once more, that if I wait they will return to me again through the kindness of another or the passing of time, they rise up to me in the spring.

When I photograph a flower I photograph it in all different ways, at morning and night, light from front and behind, up close and far away, on it’s own and with other elements. Flowers teach me the diverse nature of things and how I do come to see the many sides and times of people and that some viewpoints are more flattering than others, but they are all a part of the same flower, just seen in different ways or at different times and that it is all good and all very magnificent! Flowers derive from different places too, they survive great storms or they can be hurt badly by them like us.

I could write for hours about flowers and all they teach me; yet I still could not describe the beauty that some of them behold. Words simply can not suffice to tell you all they offer me. Pictures are reproductions that do not hold the wet aroma or third dimension or the momentary changing of light and breeze upon them. Yet, I photograph flowers so they can teach me about my own humanity and the humanity of others and because I like them. If only a flower could tell me about you, that would be the greatest thing of all, but only you can tell me about you, and I have sadness, I may not come to know many at all.

By Nancy Griswold, Fine Artist and Photographer

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The End(often means a new beginning)

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