Pressed tulip #2 peony print so wherever they go they

so wherever they go they must travel together

their bite is venomous but not deadly to humans

roots and seeds have been reputed to have medicinal properties and legend has it that the peony

in its centre

Pressed tulip #2 peony print so wherever they go theyFrom my ongoing Memento Flores series. Flower pressing is the ancient art of preserving flowers and other botanicals between two flat surfaces until they dry. I like to think of flower pressing as a precursor to the invention of photography. The process allows us, without a camera, to capture the fleeting beauty of flowers in perpetuity. 3000 year old dried flowers have been discovered in the Egyptian pyramids. When dried flowers are photographed and