I must have flowers, always, and always.

⁃ Claude Monet

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Fading Poppy Petal.

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Withered Hyacinth. From my collection of ‘lovely dead things’.

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We are in the middle of a heat wave, and I have been too hot and tired to make anything new. I did think back to one of my favorite pieces from last summer, and thought you all may enjoy it too.

This is the photo I am holding, framed, in my profile photo 🤍

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Artist statement:

I’ve been feeling sort of lost in the woods lately. Tired, sleepy - that end of summer slowdown where you feel like you’re moving in warm molasses. Some kind of fairytale dream sleep brought on by the dust motes floating in the golden rays that filter through the branches of nearby trees.

We forge ahead, and we know that around the bend of the hottest days of the year, is autumn. The promise of the crisp fall air returning. Leaves turning to a blaze of golden fire and crows starting their seasonal song outside my window.

Darker days and hot coffees. Back to school for so many. I’ll be at a bus stop before I know it, on any chilly morning, with steam swirling up from my mug. Seeing the world finally painted in moodier tones, as I send my child off with sharp brand new pencils, and her special new clothes.

The AC will be removed from the window, the shorts put away. We’ll resume the ability to don a sweater, the pants will make a blessed return in our closet. I look forward to these things every year. I also look forward to my work morphing into fall. I work seasonally and autumn is a bountiful time to be creating.

This piece is just a bit of summer’s last breath. It was made on the kind of scorching day where everything was wilting beautifully altogether, and I wanted to capture that feeling before it faded into nothing.
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For everyone who voted in my stories about the color of Dahlias I got at #traderjoes “pink” was right, although I could have taken them all! I was finally able to shoot them last night, the light was beautiful but the mosquitoes were rampant. Anyway here’s one that made it to the final cut. See a pullback in my stories.

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”
— Alfred Stieglitz
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💟 My NEW overlay collection is now available, you can find the link in my bio. Thank you for your support! 💛 ...

My one year website anniversary is coming up in a few days and I’m excited to announce that starting August 11th, I’ll be now shipping to the UK, Europe, Australia and NZ! Thank you so much for your patience while I figured out the logistics. I will also be releasing a new product that will be available worldwide! Woot! Can’t wait to share more details soon!

“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
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A sunset candlelit dream
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Planning, Design + Floral: gatheringevents
Photographer: lindseyshorterweddings
Videographer: h2hmedia
Catering + Bar: crucatering
Cake: ashleybakery
Cocktail Musicians: Plantation Gospel Singers from eastcoastentertainment
Band: partywithsts
Transportation: scexpresscharleston
Departure Car: whipdashchs
Rentals: snyderevents technicalevent mckenzie_event_lighting
Linen: stradleydavidson
Hair: briannabadams
Makeup: lashesandlacechs
Dress: lelarose
Paper: tinyshindigs
Calligraphy: maryruth_miller
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For Sunday brunch in Wentworth. Grateful for clients who choose sustainability. #gardengathered #nofloralfoam #organicflowers #botanicalflowers #fineartflowers #gardenrose #sustainableflowers #weddinginspiration #summerflowers🌸 #slowliving_create ...

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This Lisianthus, Roseanne Deep Brown, was a total accident!⁠⠀
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I actually ordered Brown instead of Deep Brown, but she paired so well with everything, and we all loved her so much, we're growing her again next year! ⁠⠀
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A good reminder that some mistakes are just part of a grander plan☺️⁠⠀
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A story about doors.

When I was a child, I imagined a lot of doorways to different worlds. Different places and times. Each unique, and beautiful. Little me spent a lot of time alone, reading, drawing, daydreaming.

My father died when I was 7, and after, I struggled to keep my head in the real world. I had received a notepad from someone a few years after his untimely death. I don’t remember who gave it to me, and it was a very odd shape, like an arched door. I immediately saw the possibility of this book.

I began to draw my my doors. Castles, jungles, faraway planets. My imagination was full of hundreds of fantasy novels already, but I never drew Middle Earth or Narnia. These places were all mine, a tiny escape hatch for me, and me alone.

When I felt scared, alone, or sad, I would simply open the book and pick a place to visit. I would close my eyes and imagine I was there. It was so comforting and calming to know that my worlds were always there waiting for me.

As I got older I lost the book, but I still imagined the doors. Sometimes they weren’t even fantastical imaginings, but simply better futures that I used to motivate myself to change my life. Portals to possibility. I still visualize them constantly.

I imagined the door that took me to art school. I imagined the door out of an abusive relationship. I imagined the door to my creative career. I stepped through all of them and never looked back to see if the entrance I came from was closed. I knew more would open.

Every piece I make is a doorway as well. An idea once hidden behind lock and key in my mind. Every day, I walk the hallways, holding a ring with many keys, looking for the right one to open.

When I still had the book, my favorite door to visit was a field full of wildflowers and greenery. A snow capped mountain in the distance. The flora was so lush, it had creeped out of the frame in my drawing. I decided it was time to recreate it in a photograph.

The window is from starstrungmanor and I am so very honored to be able to use items made by the hands of my friends in such a personal piece 🤍

Prints of are “The Passage” available now in the shoppe.

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