Creating Spring with the colors of Winter
Its February, when we are right in the middle of winter. Spring is supposed to follow eventually, but it looks like it is ages away. To the winter weary eyes it is hard to believe that there is such a thing as Spring. It is in these pastiche of thoughts that my mind starts looking out for any hint of Spring.
When I worked in New York city, these yearnings for Spring would take the color of green. Green as in the clover leaves, green hats and clothes associated with St.Patrick’s Day. During lunch time at work I would bundle myself in a thick trench coat and all the winter paraphernalia of boots, gloves, scarf etc. and march off to the flower market on 28th street. Just to see large, flat rectangular pots of green grass or an early shipment of tulips in tightly wrapped green sepals was a feast for the eyes. Besides this the reds of Valentine day offered some respite from the winter blues.
The sight of botanical illustrations was another way to assure the mind that there is such a thing as Spring. So here to your winter weary eyes I present a painting of Tulip. Its palette of colors borrows the white from snow, gray from winter, red from Valentine’s Day and green from St.Patrick’s Day! And in doing so, it creates an early Spring. This is with the hope that even if we are in the midst of winter, may there always be Spring in our hearts 
Ratna
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- February 11, 2008 / 11:55 am
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