Beauty when you least expect to find it…During short but frequent walks each day in my urban neighborhood during COVID-19, I began documenting in my own way what I see in nature that sustains and lifts me spiritually in these concerning times.

Increasingly, I became drawn to the ephemeral inner beauty of spring flowers that dotted the urban landscape here and there in yards, around trees, through iron fences  along the city streets and sidewalks I walked each day.

The Au Printemps Suite is a collection of those images of spring flowers. They are straight, mostly macro, and become abstract images by the way I frame them.  By looking beyond realistic appearance, an astonishingly varied inner essence is revealed, with sinuous rhythms of patterns, colors and shapes overlaid with an interplay of light and shadow effects.  In other words, metaphorically speaking, in peeling back the outer layer of spring flowers - of anything, really - we may discover something of beauty in its own right.

The Au Printemps Suite, a collection of 17 of those images, is now on view here in the BEAUTY IN THE TIME OF COVID portfolio.