paper flower garden
Collage of a Magnolia grandflora
by Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788)
First of all what about that name? Maybe today we can all call try it on for size? Good idea. Yes, nice to meet you--my name is Sally Granville Pendarves Lloyd-Jones The First (somehow it needs that end bit on).
Anyway. Stop this. The point is... Mary Granville Pendarves Delany did this amazing piece of work. But here's the thing: she was a late bloomer--she began her life's work at 72. So there's hope for us all.
She created what she called floral "mosaicks"--precursors to collage--and she did almost 1,000 of them. Aren't they beautiful? and somehow so modern. But then truly excellent things tend to break out of time altogether.
New book just out THE PAPER GARDEN by Molly Peacock.
