Pressed tulip #2 peony print in its centre

in its centre

these tulips were grown from bulbs imported from Holland

and in the New Testament

their bite is venomous but not deadly to humans

Pressed tulip #2 peony print in its centreFrom my ongoing Memento Flores series. Flower pressing is the ancient art of preserving flowers and other botanicals between two flat surfaces until they dry. I like to think of flower pressing as a precursor to the invention of photography. The process allows us, without a camera, to capture the fleeting beauty of flowers in perpetuity. 3000 year old dried flowers have been discovered in the Egyptian pyramids. When dried flowers are photographed and