Cheap and Immobile

Someone once asked Georgia O'Keeffe why she painted so many flowers. She said that they were cheaper than live models, and that they didn't move.

I want to be drawing more, a little every day, so I am reminded of this. After class, walking up Lexington Avenue, I think about drawing flowers. Tulips, yes, because they change every day. From the first day, fresh and straight, to a graceful elegant relaxing, to a revelatory dropping of petals. I am wrapped up in this vision, cold air snapping around me, walking fast in my excitement and I wind up at the subway station with empty hands.