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 | 30 Years Apart |
| I just saw a movie where the people are supposed to choose a moment that is going to be the memory that will stay with them forever when they die. The process of doing that is a very peculiar thing, you could take the most wonderful memory ever and put in that context, to be stuck with that forever, is pretty terrible. There is something about that that I think is present in my work. – Stephanie Torbert |
I was in California at the Huntington Botanical Gardens and I saw this big cactus that was blooming. It had a great big white flower, and I had my binoculars as well as my camera, so I took my binoculars out and I looked right into the center of this flower. I just gasped because it was so amazingly beautiful. No one could see that close because you had to stay on the path, and I started handing my binoculars to strangers that were gathering around. I said “you have to look into the center of that flower!”
They were all just astounded, and they said, “Who would ever know, who would guess that it was so beautiful in the center of that flower!” So there’s the combination of that kind of feeling along with knowing that a lot of these things are endangered. They may become extinct if they are placed in environments where they are not naturally grown. A lot of my work is about that, walking that edge between those two worlds.
– Stephanie Torbert
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