Ridgeway

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Plants - both foliage and flowers - have long been inspirational elements to humans as we record the world in our artwork. The acanthus leaf has been used as an architectural ornament for centuries. Florilegiums - books of voluptuous flower paintings - proliferated in the 1600 and 1700's. We've given flowers symbolic meaning, with certain flowers standing for love, loyalty, passion, remembrance. Why this enduring fascination with plants as artistic subject matter? When flowering plants first occurred 130 million years ago the face of the earth was forever changed. Now comprising some 235,000 species, flowering plants provide food for all of the animal world including humans. Without these plants the world as we know it today would not be and humans would not have come to exist. Do we know this innately and so, are properly respectful of plants? The many colors, forms and fragrances of flowers are their methods for attracting pollinators, thus insuring their perpetuation. These devices work on us, too, although we might choose to think our attraction is more cerebral, more aesthetic. Maybe the fact that we are awed by the beauty of plants is not coincidental.

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