Light flowers

Pimenevää syksyä keventämään sopii ajatukset vaaleista ja keveistä kukista. Minua on aina kiehtonut kukkien kuvaaminen läheltä niin valokuvissa kuin maalauksissakin. Tunnetuimpiin kukkamaalaajiin lukeutuva Georgio O´Keeffe maalasi 98-vuotiaaksi elettyään yli 200 jättikokoista kiehtovan läheltä kuvattua kukkamaalausta.

"A flower is relatively small. Everyone has many associations with a flower - the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower - lean forward to smell it - maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking - or give it to someone to please them. Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven´t time  and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time. If I could paint the flower exactly as I see it no one would see what I see because I would paint it small like the flower is small.

So I said to myself - I´ll paint what I see - what the flower is to me but I´ll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it.

When you take a flower in your han and really look at it, it´s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want to see it whether they want or not.

Georgia o´Keeffe, 1939