Life Imitates Art
by Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Title
Life Imitates Art
Artist
Venetia Featherstone-Witty
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
One of my favorite flowers, but I find it quite challenging to get a good picture of it.The sculptural quality of the Calla makes it an appealing study.This one called for a modern approach in stark and sculptural black and white.Plus, I am submitting a second version with text by Oscar Wilde. Calla (Bog Arum, Marsh Calla, Wild Calla, and Water-arum) is a genus of flowering plant in the family Araceae, containing the single species Calla palustris. It is native to cool temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, in central, eastern and northern Europe (France and Norway eastward), northern Asia and northern North America (Alaska, Canada, and northeastern contiguous United States).It is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial plant growing in bogs and ponds.The fruit is a cluster of red berries, each berry containing several seeds.
The plant is very poisonous when fresh due to its high oxalic acid content, but the rhizome (like that of Caladium, Colocasia, and Arum) is edible after drying, grinding, leaching and boiling.
THIS IMAGE IS AVAILABLE WITHOUT THE TEXT and can be found in my Galleries.
FEATURED 9/12/15 in "The Grayscale Outdoors"
FEATURED 2/28/6 in "The World We See"
FEATURED 2/29/16 in "Greeting Cards For All Occasions"
FEATURED 4/7/16 in "Premium FAA Artists"
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September 5th, 2015
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