Zedist Rose | Original David bowie The face in this painting

The face in this painting was in a photo he took of a tribal elder in Ghana

The rose petals utilize simple shading techniques that give the flower added depth and deeper crevices as in a living rose plant

They are a living organic structures distilled from the blood and nutrients of the human host

the building blocks from which it came

Both persecuted for being outside of the status quo

Zedist Rose | Original David bowie The face in this paintingThe rose warms my heart every time I see it. For me, there is a sweetness to it. An innocence. Its subtle shifts in pinks work well with the natural shifts required by the morphology. It feels almost seamless between these two converging forces with some petals peeling over into triangles. There is also a large star supporting the entire organic structure of the flower. The rose petals utilize simple shading techniques that give the flower added depth