WHITE GARDENIA

Changed my header  – better late than never, lol.  Suddenly the look of the heat
of Bryce Canyon  in June in the previous header bothered me, as I’m  drinking
multiple cups of hot tea to keep myself warm

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The Gardenia is one of my fifteen flower paintings in oil.
An exhilarating  period in my life that began with a wilted rose in a glass on my living room table.
I resisted the urge to fill a 24 x 24 canvas that had been in my stash for a year, because I knew a comparison would be made with Georgia O’Keefe (and of course they did!).
From the onset I decided that I would give the flower a personality, that I felt fit the flower.
And my very best to stay as far away from a realistic, superficially cheerful, or  erotic presentation as possible.
Also, I would keep it to the flowers that I would absolutely love.

The gardenia has two components I adore. A white flower has that virgin quality that no other flower comes close to. I like to surround myself with its fragrance. I gave the gardenia the personality of a tousled head of curly hair with a satin quality.

If you see another “personality,” go ahead:)

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Gardenia, Oil, 24 x 24 inch, © St Germain

Please put this post on “full screen” to see the correct measurements of the painted flower (a smaller version -view distorts it)

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To envelop myself with white gardenia
is a dream about strolling in
long forgotten gardens

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Where the closest gnarly tree
offers you the bench and
an excuse to read
a book in its shade

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when a sweet scent envelops me
I see which gift the wind brought by
a bush with tiny white flowers
they call Gardenias.

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till the bell tolls six
inviting to wander inside

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I pass a delicate climbing rose
leading to a court yard

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a birth bath not used for some time

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drawn by the fragrance of candles
stirring up visions of beaches with shells and
wafts of the sea and its creatures

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where you find
a note scribbled in haste

“don’t forget our sea voyage begins at sunset,
love, ……………”

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Sailing away in a dream
with anticipation to a far away land called  Gardenia.

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