Apricot Pink Narcissus STAGMA with a shell that catches

with a shell that catches light the way water does

The color itself shifts across the day

A tractor ornament is a specific kind of keepsake — it goes to someone with one particular field in mind — and this green machine is painted for exactly that person

and the vase has become the least interesting thing in the whole transaction

Apricot Pink Narcissus STAGMA with a shell that catchesA gift for a cancer survivor calls for something hopeful without overstating anything, and Apricot Pink Narcissus was built with exactly that restraint. Narcissus flowers are notoriously fussy about holding color evenly across their trumpet shaped centers, so this piece went through closer inspection than most, checked petal by petal under a loupe as if being appraised rather than glazed. The result sits somewhere between a sunrise and a ripe peach,