Highlights — botanical art

An ordinary vegetable becomes a meditation on memory, identity, and the beautiful impossibility of reaching the center “To see in the ordinary is the greatest gift.”— Frederick Franck Geographic Rings, Pebble Beach, CA, 2024 There are holidays devoted to grand things: nations, heroes, historical events, even celestial phenomena. Then there are days dedicated to something as delightfully unpretentious as the onion ring. I have nothing against onion rings. They possess their own democratic charm. Crisp, ephemeral, satisfying. They belong to roadside diners, summer barbecues, and baskets lined with wax paper. But when I learned that June 22 celebrates Onion Ring Day,...

This series of photographs explores alstroemerias as structures, quiet arrangements of line, repetition, and restraint. Paired with short personal reflections, each image becomes a study in attention: how form reveals itself slowly, how space shapes perception, and how meaning emerges through sustained looking rather than explanation.