Emergence, El Rito, 2001

In loving memory of Edmund Kara

6 1/2 x 5 1/8 inches, printed from a 4 x 5 negative on Bergger neutral tone grade 3.
Selenium toned and dry mounted on 14 x 17 Rising Museum board. Signed on mount recto, titled on verso. Printed in 2001.

My first tree peony, a Japanese cultivar which was sold as ‘Kamada Nishiki’, but appears not to have been. It had dark magenta red flowers and only became more beautiful as time passed. It resembled the tree peony, ‘Shimadaijin’.