"Nature that Imagines"

via Art MoCo:

Gary Brewer combines a classic sensibility with so-called eccentric impulses to create lush, detailed paintings of botany that evoke the world of science fiction, many leagues under the sea. Orchids and anemones play an important role in Brewer's latest series of work, A Seductive Nature, along with lichens, sponges and corals. The artist uses drawings, models, photos and maquettes to explore potential, and the results are a blend of observation and invention.

I wish I was still in the Bay for what I'm sure will be a mind-blowing art show by Gary Brewer. His Orchid series is my favorite. How cool is this quasi-Orchid, quasi-Kelp sea creature?!

I'll end on a beautiful quote from John Laroche (played by Chris Cooper) in Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation:

Point is, what's so wonderful is that every one of these flowers has a specific relationship with the insect that pollinates it. There's a certain orchid that looks exactly like a certain insect so the insect is drawn to this flower, its double, its soul mate, and wants nothing more than to make love to it. And after the insect flies off, spots another soul-mate flower and makes love to it, thus pollinating it. And neither the flower nor the insect will ever understand the significance of their lovemaking. I mean, how could they know that because of their little dance the world lives? But it does. By simply doing what they're designed to do, something large and magnificent happens. In this sense they show us how to live - how the only barometer you have is your heart. How, when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way.