Neon-Illuminated Glass Orchids by Laura Hart Consider the Flowers' Fragility and Resiliency — Colossal
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Made of translucent glass, Laura Hart’s brilliant orchids appear to be the paragon of delicacy: the fleshy petals and neon-illuminated columns are in full bloom, representing a fleeting stage of life that’s modeled with an easily breakable substance. The Suffolk-based artist, though, is more concerned with the floral family’s historical resilience and aptitude for survival. There are 28,000 known species of orchids, which 100-million-year-old fossil records prove were the first to bloom. “Representing a quarter of the world’s flowering plants, there are four times as many orchid species as there are mammals and twice as many birds,” Hart says. More
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Neon-Illuminated Glass Orchids by Laura Hart Consider the Flowers' Fragility and Resiliency — Colossal
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Neon-Illuminated Glass Orchids by Laura Hart Consider the Flowers' Fragility and Resiliency — Colossal
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Neon-Illuminated Glass Orchids by Laura Hart Consider the Flowers' Fragility and Resiliency — Colossal
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