“Though flaunting its charm by the light of day, the flower seems to have been hiding an aspect of it’s deeper interior as I studied it on my camera’s ground glass. Having photographed and studied the sunflower in many of its growing aspects, I was intrigued with the images presented in its process of drying and dying. Beauty always attended its outer aspects in life, whereas the folding up of the dying petals gave images a more interior and reflective stance, like that taught by the mystics”
~ Paul Caponigro
Paul’s great skill is to take a simple object, like a sunflower and imbue it with such depth of meaning that it becomes something else and elicits a deep emotion in the viewer like few others ever achieve.
