Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker building a picture that feels

building a picture that feels like memory and manifesto simultaneously

and the decorative as emotional language

flower-covered surface

balancing botanical detail with bold colour and decorative rhythm

There is a hush to it that lingers

Striped Camellias by Kazumasa Exhibition Kaitlyn Parker building a picture that feelsCamellia japonica, with its precise, formal petals, was a favourite subject in both Japanese painting and early botanical photography and Kazumasa's striped variety is a particularly striking example. The flowers are caught in their prime: petals patterned in clean stripes of crimson and white, the geometry almost architectural in its regularity. His collotype process reproduces the pigmentation with a fidelity that no hand coloured engraving could