They have many similarities, but one is not their sizes. This one is 15 X 18. Another difference is this little blossom on the upper left side of the canvas. It just found its way there with no argument from me. I just sew without thinking when I work on these. Sometimes some interesting things happen.
Cotton bloom - Google images |
There are the right number of petals and it is white. Which, by the way, means it has not been self-pollinated because, once they are, they turn pink becoming a deeper pink as time goes by.
In the next stage the flower dies and falls off leaving the green boll where the cotton grows. It is enclosed in green bracts which dry up and split open as the boll gets larger. Once the boll is fully mature, it will eventually fall off the stem. The seeds are in the fluffy cotton boll and are supposed to find their way to the ground, but most end up at the gin. But that's another post.
This cotton painting, then, has all the stages of the life-cycle of a cotton plant. Now that's serendipitous!
1 comment:
I really like both this and the one you posted about earlier - the white cotton sits really nicely on your green piecing. I read that you feel like something's missing but it doesn't seem that way to me.
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