Holyland, USA, silver prints, 30”sq., 1998

These plastic flowers were shot at Holyland, USA, in Waterbury, CT. I think these flowers are beautiful. Having no horticultural ability at all, I am at a loss to identify them by name. My aesthetic enjoyment of their form and arrangement is parallel to that of any living, breathing floral display. Black and white photographs further obfuscate any distinction between the artificial and the organic, rendering one as real as the other.