To be a flower is profound responsibility.
Emily Dickinson

Bearded iris.II
Nature is alchemy in motion, a quiet transformation where sunlight becomes color, soil becomes memory, and every flower is a vessel of the unseen. Petals unfurl like whispers, roots trace invisible threads, and in their fragile bloom, life speaks of resilience, renewal, and the eternal rhythm of becoming.

Magnolia.VII
In the fleeting opening and fading of a blossom, shadow and light entwine, endings give way to beginnings. Evolution shapes beauty through cycles of growth, decay, and return, weaving continuity and wonder into the tapestry of existence. Each flower carries the memory of countless seasons, a talisman of possibility, a whisper of infinity.

Smooth hydrangea / Eastern red bud / Coleus.I

Bleeding Heart.I

Forget-me-not.I

Buttonbush.I

Fuchsia.VI

Peace Lily.XX

Almond willow / Giant allium / Stick.I

Tulip.I

Peony.XXV

Batchelor's button.I
ALKAMIE is my practice of witnessing this sacred process. Through photography, I pause the ephemeral, reveal the unseen, and honor the alchemy flowing through every petal, stem, and leaf. Each image is a meditation, a hymn to impermanence, a glimpse of life’s hidden currents.

Angel tears.I

Pink Peony.IV

Tree Peony.XXXVI

Pink Tree Peony.VII
Within their ephemeral beauty lies the profound work of evolution: a timeless alchemist shaping resilience, continuity, and wonder. A bloom emerges, flourishes, fades, and returns to the earth, becoming both ending and beginning, shadow and light, matter and spirit. In this eternal cycle, life continually renews itself, and even the smallest forms carry the memory of infinity.

Almond willow / Pod / Buttonbush.I

Daylily.II
To see these transformations is to step into the mystical dance of nature, and to recognize that in the alchemy of flowers, we find the reflection of our own becoming—ever unfolding, ever renewing, ever alive.

Primrose.I

Magnolia bud / Northern sea oats / Mayapple.I

Oriental poppy.I
Within the darkest black lies the brilliance of possibility. This contrast reminds us that even in spaces we imagine as empty, beauty is waiting to be felt. The unseen, the unappreciated, the shadowed places—all carry a sacred light. In every leaf, bird, stone, or unseen force, spirit breathes its timeless presence.

Tree peony.I

Tulip.XXVII

Tulip.XXXIX

Tulip.XXXVII
Alchemy transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. It is the hidden process by which sunlight becomes color in a petal, a seed becomes a forest, or shadow reveals its own light. In the quiet moments of observation, the mundane is revealed as miraculous, and the smallest details—folds of a leaf, a droplet of dew, the curve of a stem—become vessels of wonder. Alchemy is the lens through which impermanence is celebrated, decay becomes renewal, and every overlooked fragment of nature holds infinite possibility. Through this transformative vision, the everyday is never simply ordinary; it is the threshold where magic, resilience, and beauty quietly emerge.

Red Tulip.V

Yellow Tulip.II

Tulip Red.I

Trumpet lily.I
Our natural world is a living poem, shaped by the quiet genius of evolution.

Star of Persia / Red mohican allium / Southern globethistle.I

Purple cornflower.I

Sumac.I