Flowerfall
Private Collection
This piece measures approximately 6" by 6" and is 5/8" thick. Wooden frame with a gold paint underlay onto which stained paper has been glazed. Inset into the frame is glass covered with hand-made paper onto which slate, blown down from the rooftops of Lancashire, has been adhered. Dried carnations, individually varnished, fall like a curtain in front of stone. A single shell found at the coast rests below. I have kept watch, gazed in silent stillness out of so many windows, and watched rain drizzle slowly down the pane. Would that the rain was flowers, just like these, a curtain of petals, and I the shell—not solid, like the slate, but ever-turning, changing, growing wise.
