No One Will Every Buy A Grey Orchid
18x24"
Watercolor, Charcoal
 
This orchid refuses the theatrics usually demanded of beauty. Its petals hover in a palette of ash, milk, and green, edged in heavy black Charcoal that feels both protective and constricting.
 
The flowers gather at the top in a loose, almost awkward congregation. At the base, thick leaves splay outward, mottled and damp-looking, suggesting endurance rather than ornament. This is not a flower posed for admiration but one that persists anyway.
 
No One Will Ever Buy A Grey Orchid ponders an uncomfortable truth: value is often assigned by brightness, rarity, or ease of desire. Here, the grey orchid blooms without asking to be chosen, confident that existence itself can be enough.