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Feast of Fools
17 inches x 10 ¼ inches
Watercolor and graphite on paper
Signature date: 5.29.05

Day lilies prey on paper wasps in a paradoxical cascade. Botanical time, imperceptibly slow to human eyes, reveals the Jekyll and Hyde duality of all plant life-at once serenely beautiful, fragile, and benign, and startlingly feral.

all text and images © Berwald Oriental Art and Julie Rauer

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