Close up portrait of a phalaenopsis orchid. This is the kind most often found in stores in the US. Don’t you just love the color and pattern in this flower?
Orchid – Spring Sensation
This was the first orchid I purchased and it blooms twice a year, but I think it secretly likes spring the best. Don’t you just love the intricate patterns orchids display? This one is almost like fine lace.
Companions
A group of different orchid flowers clustered closely together in intimate communion with each other. All from the Phalaenopsis family but each with its own personality. They must be one of the easier types to grow since they have become the most commercialized in the States.
Mellow Yellow
With no allusions to Donovan’s song, I called this Mellow Yellow because of how the color seemed to be in more of a minor key against the more neutral background. This cluster of blooms seems rather regal to me.
Mary and Joseph installation at Williams Gallery
MARY AND JOSEPH, by Jean Reece Wilkey, fabric, wood, paint, glass, ceramic, clips, twine, fruit. 2012/13 The faculty triennial exhibition, In This Corner, opened today at the Williams Gallery at New Mexico State University. Curated by author, educator, curator Linda Weintraub, she asked the artists to focus on the corners of the gallery in creating the […]
Mary and Joseph installation
I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve been busy with the beginning of school (and subbing for someone), as well as putting up my installation, Mary and Joseph. The show just opened at Williams Gallery and is up until 23 February. You can see images of the entire installation and a description of the […]
Praxis members in Panorama magazine
The Panorama magazine published Gabriella D. Ferrari’s article, “Alumni, artists form Praxis Collective.” We were interviewed at the time of the collective art installation Indra’s Net at the Las Cruces Museum of Art, but the Fall issue was just released recently. Rob Yee spent a couple of hours taking photos. It’s certainly not easy to photograph this […]