The present work is a sketch for a painting of the same title. The painting belongs to a series of 12 paintings of imaginary flowers, captured in a book, Another Language of Flowers (New York: George Braziller 1998), with poems written by poet friends. The poem for this work is by Adrienne Rich:
"Pictor mysteriosa (Burnt Umbrage)"
Pistil, stamen and bract but never abstract: the flower becomes the eye we see her by.
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