depending on how i look at this figure, i either see a comical vetruvian man with a headdress of fruit, stretching his limbs like a strange combination of the jolly green giant and carmen miranda, or else i see a bulbous tropical snowflake. in either case, it looks like something trying, and failing, to be taken seriously.

pinwheel pattern of black-eyed susan, succulent leaves, woodpecker feathers, highbush cranberries, and unidentified blue berries

the pot in my kitchen, my front yard, and saint paul, mn