use heat-colour close-up of a Sturt's desert pea (Swainsona formosa) crimson etched against ochre dust as though the red has been distilled from the ferrous earth itself and concentrated into petal. At the base of each petal, a black boss — glossy, sealed, like a compressed grief. Tender and tenacious both. Nothing in it is accidental., ArsMJStyle, impressionism, Oil painted