© 2012 Honor Marks

Cactus Flower
oil on canvas
30x40"
$3400

"From this nest of thorns, this snare of hooks and fiery spines, is born once each year a splendid flower. It is unpluckable and except to an insect almost unapproachable, yet soft, lovely, sweet, desirable, exemplifying better than the rose among the thorns the unity of opposites."- Edward Abbey