Strange Flowers








December 13 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - December 13 2017
November 20 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - November 20 2017
Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color.
Love, the world
Suddenly turns, turns color. The streetlight
Splits through the rat's tail
Pods of the laburnum at nine in the morning.
It is the Arctic,
This little black
Circle, with its tawn silk grasses - babies hair.
There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly.
I am flushed and warm.
I think I may be enormous,
I am so stupidly happy,
My Wellingtons
Squelching and squelching through the beautiful red.
This is my property.
Two times a day
I pace it, sniffing
The barbarous holly with its viridian
Scallops, pure iron,
And the wall of the odd corpses.
I love them.
I love them like history.
The apples are golden,
Imagine it ----
My seventy trees
Holding their gold-ruddy balls
In a thick gray death-soup,
Their million
Gold leaves metal and breathless.
O love, O celibate.
Nobody but me
Walks the waist high wet.
The irreplaceable
Golds bleed and deepen, the mouths of Thermopylae.
-Sylvia Plath, Letter in November
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
November 09 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - November 09 2017
For the Nom de Plume collection, I've had a custom silk charmeuse digitally printed from photographs I took of antique letters that I collect. Limited edition dress and hair ribbon.
October 30 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 30 2017
All antique pieces for sale online Thursday, November 2nd at 12pm.
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Kelsie Rae Hastie.
October 30 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 30 2017
October 27 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 27 2017
October 24 2017
Audrey Cantwell
October 08 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 08 2017
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
Model is Helena Feher.
October 07 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - October 07 2017
I see nothing.
We may sink and settle on the waves.
The sea will drum in my ears.
The white petals will be darkened with sea water.
They will float for a moment and then sink.
Rolling over the waves will shoulder me under.
Everything falls in a tremendous shower,
Dissolving me.
- Virginia Woolf
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Acadia National Park, Maine.
September 20 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 20 2017
It is opposed to all true philosophy to say that flowers lack their own eternity. They may perish and die here ; but they will reappear in the restitution of all things. Nothing has been created out of the great Mystery which will not inhabit a form beyond the aether. (Paracelsus)
Montreal Botanical Gardens in September.
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell.
September 15 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 15 2017
All photos on 35mm film by Audrey Cantwell. Model is Alexandra Barzegar.
September 14 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 14 2017
All photos on 35mm by Audrey Cantwell. Models are Tuba Qurban, Narges Qurban and Kaeten Bonli.
September 02 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 02 2017
September 01 2017
Audrey Cantwell
Written By Audrey Cantwell - September 01 2017