Blooms and Blossoms
This series takes a look at the journey flowers take to bloom and the beautiful spreads they create, focusing on the flowers found on islands of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan, as well as an impressive mushroom and a tree from the latter . Through the series I explore the conditions and surroundings of development as people like flowers change, grow, and blossom.
Meihua / Ume 梅花 | Plum Blossom
Ice Off
Ice On
False springs leading not to water but a renewed thawing period
A second freeze
Up through the Yangtze and into Nara Japan
Baika parties run amok
The original Hanas for this Hanami
The heralding of spring
Windy woodsy branches painted a deep dark brown
Ice filtering them creating glossy caramel hues
Standing strong at the gates of
きもん | Omote-Kimon
Flowering without leaves means
Trusting in advance
What will only make sense in reverse.
Sakura ( サクラ | Cherry Blossom)
Mono no Aware
物の哀れ
Flowers Blooming All at Once
Fully Enveloped in every Pink
Purposefully Poignant Petals
Now Placed on the Ground
it is this transience precisely that is the singularity of life
Truth: We are Beautiful when we Bloom and Blossom
When we fall
When we shift and shake as the winds guide us away
Willowing and wading downstream to new River Banks
In Beauty
Lies Impermanence
In Impermanence Lies Life
When we align ourselves to this
In Mind, Body, and Spirit
Our Kokoro 心
Becomes infinitely attuned to the rhythms of nature
Wherever they might send us next
Kirinomitake (キリノミタケ) The Texas Star
This Lone Star Shining Bright
Bursting Open
This New Grounding
Dead Roots Giving Rise to its Glory
Mornings of Saprobic Revival
Water All Around we Worship
Drops Lifted creating Life
Humidity causing a
Dehiscence a
Dissonance a
Dis-alignment between its internal body and external state
It hisses when it blooms as it expels spores
The “Devil’s Cigar”
It’s a Smoke Show at this
Wild West Shootout
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Bauhinia x Blakeana (洋紫荊) Hong Kong Orchid
In this Wilderness this Orchid is Created
Hybridization creating a
Hythe in Nature
Lonely Havens-
In this emptiness the Orchid Blooms
Heaven on Earth
Lo-Debar
Progressive Leaves
Swirling Abound
Splitting
Cleaving Cleverly
聰明葉
Surround Sound
And Decidedly
Asymmetrical
Simply Asymptotic
In its Totality
Always Approaching
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Plumeria Obtusa ( 鸡蛋花) Singapore Graveyard Flower
It’s This Infinite Revival En Vivo
Spring to Autumn Blooms
Sweet, Strong Scents
Blunt Leaves Obovate, Obviating
The barriers placed by time
Two years in this Slow Burn
Pruning necessary to create space for new sprouts
Infinite Regeneration
Mugen Saisei 無限再
Urushi (漆) Lacquer Tree
Kamazuri
かまずり
Layers and layers stripped
Inner bark
Urushi Kanna
うるし かっな
Cutting Across
Henzuke
へｎずけ
Cuts Lined up Horizontally
Now Oozing
Gooey Goblets
Burning
Stinging
Poison Oak
Sap Expositioned to
Oxygen
Giving it a Breath of Life
Unbounded Pi Electrons
Reactive Energy Allowing for its movement Through space
Creating a Chain Reaction
Polymerization
A Hardening
A Christening
A Darkening
Glazed and Glistening
The Evaporation of Water leaving only Resistance
Lacquer
