holding on to the strange and beautiful flower (21 October 2016)

What if you slept
And what if
In your sleep
You dreamed
And what if
In your dream
You went to heaven
And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower
And what if
When you awoke
You had that flower in you hand
Ah, what then?

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Karl Blossfeldt, Cephalaria, Scabious Family, Capitulum, 1928-1932

 Karl Blossfeldt, Phacelia tanacetifolia (Tansy phacelia, flowering panicle), 1929

 Karl Blossfeldt, Adiantum pedatum (Maiden hair fern), 1928

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

Karl Blossfeldt, Achillea umbellata, 1928 | Henri Matisse, Algue rouge sur fond bleu ciel, 1952


Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

- Carrie Fisher

Karl Blossfeldt, Delphinium, 1928