Apricot Pink Narcissus STAGMA The color itself shifts across

The color itself shifts across the day

with a shell that catches light the way water does

apparently for life

and here that lift is doing more work than it looks like it is doing

Apricot Pink Narcissus STAGMA The color itself shifts acrossA gift for a cancer survivor calls for something hopeful without overstating anything, and Apricot Pink Narcissus was built with exactly that restraint. Narcissus flowers are notoriously fussy about holding color evenly across their trumpet shaped centers, so this piece went through closer inspection than most, checked petal by petal under a loupe as if being appraised rather than glazed. The result sits somewhere between a sunrise and a ripe peach,