I usually work with a single flower. On its own, a flower seems to hold an internal dialogue. This time instead I wanted three blossoms in conversation with each other, so I worked in a different aspect ratio to give them room. The conversation between the three is the overlapping of petals and the various directions of the stamens. They live in a hierarchy, or at least in different spaces, and each one has its own opinion, which is why they’re not all facing the same way.

Daylilies live for only a single day. That’s a herculean effort for a flower this architecturally brilliant, all of it built toward one purpose: attracting pollinators. The seed that follows carries the species forward, and none of it happens without an entire community of nature working together. Here, that remarkable effort to survive is intermingled with images of the galaxy we all live within. The harmony and balance of the cosmos, of which our Earth is only a small part, is what makes room for the sheer diversity of living things.