then : now :: sunflowers

oh sunflowers. i just don't really like you. That's not 100% true...I like you in fields and wild gardens. but you're sometimes just too brown and yellow for me in arrangements and art. I like this Van Gogh sunflower painting probably because it's more monochromatic in the yellow tones. And i like these prints by Jeannine Roberts Royce because they are mandala-like and very pleasing in their detailed symmetry and "not yellow and brown"-ness.