trompe l’oeil

i dried this echinacea last fall by hanging it upside down from a rafter in my garage. but it looks like it was either caught with a strobe flash on a windy late autumn day, or frozen still by an early frost. i like that you can’t tell exactly what is going on–dead or alive? in motion or stiff? photo or painting? agony or pleasure? posed or candid? in motion? or . . . STILL?

dried enchinacea