Bitter Orange Flower Fashion and quietly beautiful

and quietly beautiful

cascading layers of color float freely across the composition

the warm-cool layering of No

Clean detail and faithful colour reproduction make this a print worth looking at closely

each element deliberately placed to speak to the rhythm of the city

Bitter Orange Flower Fashion and quietly beautifulThis botanical plate presents the bitter orange Citrus aurantium with the disciplined precision of 18th or 19th century scientific illustration. Flower, bud, cross section and fruit are arranged on the page as a complete portrait of the plant, each element rendered in careful detail: the waxy texture of petals, the geometric interior of a cut fruit, the fine venation of leaves. The composition is spare and formal, governed by the conventions of the