How The Rose Grows .. In order for you to go home to smell the roses, Someone has to go home smelling like cow sh_t.

28″x 9″x 9″
Acrylic tubes and chromed iron
2003

In order for you to go home to smell the roses, someone has to go home smelling like cow sh_t.

The message is clear!

Quite simply, someone has to pay.The proud hostess receives her plaudits for the beautiful floral arrangement.The gardener isn’t even in the background.

“Massa” creams off from the top with a fine china ladle.

But how did that cream come about?Jump high, jump low, someone had to pay.Somewhere there is a sweaty slave in that picture.Someone has to rub an aching hand.Someone has to nurse the sore “green” thumb.Someone has to scrub off the smell of manure; of cow shit.Yes, someone has to pay.However, in the end, it may be “massa”. . . things aren’t always what they seem.

Each has his need, and that need, admittedly or otherwise, is one for the other.This work moves up and down and up cannot be without down.Rose cannot be without thorn.