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| Hosta 'Dancing with Dragons' 23 July 2026 |
Perception
of an object costs (1071)
Emily
Dickinson
Perception
of an object costs
Precise the
Object's loss —
Perception
in itself a Gain
Replying to
its Price —
The Object
Absolute — is nought —
Perception
sets it fair
And then
upbraids a Perfectness
That
situates so far —
When I began
scanning my plants in a lazy hot summer of 2001 I had as my goal to get
accurate images of the plants of my garden. I have always scanned at 100% size
anybody looking the scans will know the size of the plant. My monitor is calibrated
so the colours, especially of my roses are accurate.
Now 25 years
later I have become artsy. I believe that my over 3000 plant scans are art
which makes me an artist even if nobody will agree with me on both of those
opinions.
Artsy
involves somehow not being exact on what is perfection. My fellow rosarians of
the Vancouver Rose Society do not see the beauty of a rose that is past it. My
fellow members of the American Hosta Society, who eschew my perceived beauty of
hosta flowers, would not accept the scan here of Hosta ‘Dancing with Dragons’.