Saint Louis Orchid

by Ginny Schmidt

Title

Saint Louis Orchid

Artist

Ginny Schmidt

Medium

Photograph - Digital Abstract

Description

Way back in 2005 I went to Illinois to spend Thanksgiving with my cousin. She lives just across the river from St, Louis, and we visited the arboretum there. I got a shot of this beautiful orchid.

A painting of a flower is lovely, but the flower represented is either a creation of the artist or filtered through the artist's perception. A photograph of a flower is also filtered, captured either on film or digitally to preserve its image. Which one is truer? Neither is the flower itself.

However I believe that a photograph captures more exactly the true nature of that flower, is a representation of exactly what it looked like at a frozen moment in time - the NOW that was then.

So the flower pictured here died soon after it was immortalized in all its glory, and has since been replicated billions of times the world over by orchid plants of the same variety, but that one particular orchid will never live again. Or will it?

Does it live on in every orchid of its kind? Does it live on in its offspring? Does it live on in the memory of everyone who stopped that day in St. Louis in 2005? Does the energy that WAS that flower still exist? They say that energy never dies. I believe that there is much we do not understand about the nature of energy.

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February 28th, 2013

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