Yet more commentary on the arrogance and vanity of homo sapiens – by symmetry and spasm, harmony and clash – through formal pattern and casual colour.
  Recollecting my grandparent’s world of flowerbeds and bugs and fishing and fruit where we all grew up on the Bay of Plenty.
  Chrysanthemums are fêted for a hundred reasons, all around the world; were named after gold as premier members of the sunflower family; emerged from China, with dahlias, asters and everlasting daisies; but is truly the most attractive type.