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One of the hardest things I've tried to examine & convey since I started exploring work clothing is the expectations we carry about how women ought to look at work-- the intersection of feminity & work ... it is so thrilling to connect with a visual storyteller who not only gets that complicated, ineffable web, but taps her remarkably talented crew of genuine, hard-working sisters to capture a point of view that challenges how we see (perceive?) women who use their hands to do skilled manual work (labor in my case). @idaelevine --please never stop taking pictures.
Delighted to be opening the doors to the nursery/lab of @issima__ every Saturday in August, 10-4 to anyone interested in unusual hardy plants (& gardeners?)...DM for address, please.
When @nymag runs a story on plantspeople wihout the sunset-dahlia- instagram-pretty, it might mean we are closer to also wanting a deeper, less saccrhrine connection to the natural world? Maybe... honored that the work I've done in the city with @ed_bowen (@issima__) is included in this fine round-up. Also, many thanks to @ward.roberts for his Nirvana, "come as you are" philosophy on taking portraits. Went straight from the potting bench to the dreamy landscape of city wonder, @timothy_bryant_architect (a long time project of @ed_bowen,) decked out in what I wear to work... Link in profile for the commute home.
To borrow a phrase from Fletcher Steele, the chief vice of a garden--a life-- is to be merely pretty. Confronting that which on the surface is decidedly not beautiful is something I see countless women doing online and irl.... the power of women.... #innumberstoobigtoignore
A single stem of Papaver somniferum from Sibylle Kreutzberger & Pam Schwerdt, joint head gardeners of Sissinghurst for 31 years. According to John Grimshaw, the ladies wanted a white poppy for the White Garden, but could not locate any through the usual horticultural channels. "They had seen pictures of fields of white poppies in Afghanistan, so knew they it existed, but how to get seed? Eventually they obtained seed from the local baker, who would otherwise have sprinkled bread with it, and from it grew perfect white poppies, of which these are direct descendants."
Addie flexin that sock tuck cuz gardeners have the best style. Shameless plug to come to one of the best private gardens in the US--Sanonnet Garden. It's only open 2 days a year for the Garden Conservancy. Flogging plants all weekend and bringing gems ..more on stories.
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