Death of a Hydrangea

Death of a Hydrangea

Hydrangea macrophylla letum

There is beauty in nature and all natural things succumb to death as the season changes to Autumn. I wanted to capture this hydrangea’s “dying breaths” as its remaining hours of photosynthesis gradually faded on this December day in 2013. Sunlight gave this plant hope, a final blossoming under subdued hues. Until the sun faded and the mystique of Winter called it on the cold breeze, downward, wilting and decaying into its resting place.

Prismacolor pencils on black Stonehenge support 32cm x 22cm

Hydrangea 1
Hydrangea 1
Hydrangea 2
Hydrangea 2
Hydrangea 3
Hydrangea 3
Hydrangea 4
Hydrangea 4

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