Two Seed Pods

Two lotus seed pods lean together against a soft, flat pale-blue ground. One has dried to a woody brown, its funnel packed with dark empty cells; the other is still fresh, its green-and-yellow crown holding plump blue-grey seeds in each socket.

The pairing reads as a quiet study of one form at two stages of life, the ripe beside the spent. Modelled with steady realism and set on plain colour, the pods take on the poise of a botanical portrait.