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Tropical Garden B — First Exhibition

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The whole release hung on a single wall, at the scale the works are printed. Walk from left to right.

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Pink tulips bowing their heads in a rounded, half-translucent frosted glass vase against a pale grey wall

Wall label · TR-29

When the Flower Bows

Perhaps no life blooms in fair weather alone.

Three large glossy leaves and a single green fruit on a terracotta block, lit from the side, casting a soft shadow on a warm wall

Wall label · TR-10

The Source of Life

The eye is caught at first glance.

Two pink-and-cream anemones with dark centres in a tall square glass vase on a dark tabletop against a cream wall

Wall label · TR-31

Leaning Together

Leaning together.

A cluster of green papayas crowning a plain white column, a few leaves opening above them, against a pale green wall

Wall label · TR-03

Gathering

Gathered, and held.

A single glossy leaf resting against the lip of a softly misshapen green frosted-glass bottle, against a cream wall

Wall label · TR-05

One Leaf

One leaf is enough.

An agave rosette fanning out from a pale square column with a single small white flower at its centre, against a pale yellow wall

Wall label · TR-06

A Single Star

One star, at the centre.

Three broad dark leaves opening from a low centre with a single green fruit resting among them, against a pale cream ground

Wall label · TR-17

What the Leaves Keep

The fruit sits low; the leaves close around it.

A broad lotus leaf held up on a tall white ceramic cylinder like a parasol, against a cream wall

Wall label · TR-07

Parasol

Shade, held up on a single stem.

A pink banana flower opening above a single heart-shaped dark green leaf in a white cylinder, young fruit already forming beneath the bloom, against a cream wall

Wall label · TR-11

The Banana Flower

A life bears fruit while it is still in bloom.

Two anemones in a tall square glass vase, photographed in black and white

Wall label · TR-36

Leaning Together, Monochrome

The same closeness, in silver.

A jackfruit standing on its end with a plumeria branch and two white flowers rising from it, in black and white

Wall label · TR-39

Weight and Bloom

What is heavy still flowers.

White tulips resting on the shoulder of a frosted glass sphere, in black and white

Wall label · TR-40

Resting

Tulips at rest on a sphere of light.

Violet tradescantia blooms floating around a celadon-glazed vessel against a pale wall

Wall label · TR-33

Tradescantia & Celadon

Small blue, floating.

A dark lotus bud with a tiny white star-shaped flower, leaning from a tall grey stoneware vessel, in black and white

Wall label · TR-38

Bud & Stoneware

A bud, leaning out of the grey.

Large glossy fig leaves with two round fruits at their base against a pale yellow wall

Wall label · TR-24

Foliage, Colour

Leaves, in their own green.

The same fig foliage photographed as a monochrome study

Wall label · TR-35

Foliage, Monochrome

The same leaves, by light alone.

Two lotus leaves on one stem, one open like a dish above the other, against a white wall

Wall label · TR-02

Two Lotus Leaves

Two leaves, one stem, one silence.

Magenta calla lilies resting on the shoulder of a large frosted white glass sphere against a pale wall

Wall label · TR-26

On the Sphere

Deep colour resting on white.

A bunch of green coconuts with bare branching stems on a tall grey column against a pale blue wall

Wall label · TR-09

Held Aloft

Weight, carried lightly.

A single broad dark green leaf standing upright with a pink-and-white shell ginger flower spike resting along its upper edge, against a pale olive ground

Wall label · TR-14

Along the Leaf

One leaf, and what it carries.

A tall pale stoneware column topped by a green bud with two red-veined croton leaves spreading to either side, against a cream wall

Wall label · TR-19

The Small Figure

A bud above, two leaves out to the sides.

A tall dark green spathe rising like a spire from a broad sand-coloured stoneware form, ringed at the join by small white flowers, against a warm grey wall

Wall label · TR-21

The Spire

Small flowers at the join.

Six cream anthuriums with crimson throats in a tall white vase, black looping stems drawing arcs around them, against a pale grey wall

Wall label · TR-27

Written in the Air

Black lines drawn around white flowers.

A large green mango standing on its end, three flame-red peacock flowers with long stamens rising from it on thin stems, against a pale green-grey wall

Wall label · TR-18

Mango and Flame

Brightness needs something steady to rise from.

Five large dark tropical leaves filling the frame, a single small white star-shaped flower opening at their centre

Wall label · TR-12

The Small Light

A small light is enough to find the way.

Two kalanchoe (mother of thousands) leaves edged with tiny plantlets rising like wings from a tall block wrapped in banana leaf, against a pale cream wall

Wall label · TR-22

Mother of Thousands

Every edge carries a small beginning.

A heart-shaped elephant-ear leaf held up before a bent green frosted-glass bottle, a pale closed bud rising above it, against a pale grey-white wall

Wall label · TR-04

The Heart Leaf

A crooked stem can still hold a heart up.

Four rust-orange calla lilies on thin stems turning in different directions above a pale celadon frosted-glass vase, against a pale mint wall

Wall label · TR-28

Four Voices

Facing different ways, sharing one vase.

Five deep plum calla lilies on long arching stems floating above a tall white frosted-glass vase, against a pale grey wall

Wall label · TR-37

The Dance

Lightness is its own kind of strength.

A green papaya standing on its end, a long slender stem rising from it to a large lace-edged papaya leaf, against a pale cream wall

Wall label · TR-13

From the Fruit

In time, the fruit holds up the tree.

A star of long dark green leaves fanning from a tall terracotta block, a single small purple bud at their centre, against a white wall

Wall label · TR-08

The Crown

What crowns us is what surrounds us.

A single ridged, thorned green cactus stem curving upward through the frame, three small coral-red flowers opening along it, against a pale cream wall

Wall label · TR-15

The Climb

The flowers are along the way, not only at the top.

Long dark green blades sweeping out from the base like brushstrokes, fine threads rising above them each tipped with a small red mark, against a pale grey-green wall

Wall label · TR-20

Brushstrokes

Every gesture is signed somewhere.

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