Watermelon Slice Ornament Begonia Two decades in

Two decades in

The fairy echeveria is smaller than the standard echeveria in the way that certain things are smaller than expected and more present than anything larger has managed — a rosette form in peridot green at a scale that reads well on a narrow wall or shelf where a larger piece would feel wrong

which describes both the lunch and

because of course we did

Watermelon Slice Ornament Begonia Two decades inA hand blown glass watermelon ornament delivers the definitive summer fruit to the tree in painted cross section pink flesh, white rind, green skin, and a scatter of black seeds placed individually by a Chive painter who understands that seed placement is the difference between a watermelon that reads as real and one that reads as a graphic design exercise. The three color gradient from skin to flesh is built wet on wet in a single session, each band