Our Other Pets

When I was a junior in high school, a painting assignment in art class solidified my certainty that studio art would be my college major. It was also that painting, I think, that may have convinced my parents that my commitment to art wasn’t born of a mind out to lunch or stuck in outer space.
A larger oil painting study, I chose to merge two famous paintings into one, copying chosen elements of each as best I could. The primary of the two was Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Sunflower, New Mexico, 1935”.
During that period of time, I was also wearing Elizabeth Arden’s perfume, “Sunflowers”, to my then boyfriend’s delight or disgust; of which, I will never be sure.
I spotted these sunflowers on my way to my shaman in Brooklyn recently, and I was struck by the power of a flower to capsulize, in some way, a whole section of time.
Flowers are kind of like our other pets.
And with that, I’m wishing you a day of no frets, and one of nostalgic fragrance.
Sherry 💖
