The interpretation of the artist's motivation is difficult to determine based on the botanical illustrations. Some matchings, like some of the plant identifications, are good, some are mediocre, others are poor to nonexistent. The botanical investigations lead to a garden of forking paths with increasing ambiguity. If nothing further can be learned from even the best matchings, what is accomplished by pursuing progressively weaker examples?
Botanical investigations are like intellectual flypaper. Those that get stuck here cannot move forward. It's not until the VMs cosmos, when it is seen as a combination of the BNF Fr. 565 cosmos inside a Shirakatsi wheel, that the full extent of VMs artistic "manipulation" starts to become apparent.
Botanical investigations are like intellectual flypaper. Those that get stuck here cannot move forward. It's not until the VMs cosmos, when it is seen as a combination of the BNF Fr. 565 cosmos inside a Shirakatsi wheel, that the full extent of VMs artistic "manipulation" starts to become apparent.