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The vase, the tulips…each in itself has a simple and perfect beauty. Put the tulips in the vase, and their individual beauty is transformed into beauty of another sort…one that is elegant and formal while remaining altogether organic.
It happens all the time, this sort of transformation, and each time it’s a wonder. It’s a dialectic process; one thing interacts with another thing and out of that interaction comes a qualitatively different third thing. It’s a process that defies categories. It takes place with liquids (the gin and tonic dialectic), with food (the ham and swiss dialectic), with music (the flute and guitar dialectic). It even happens with people. An old man and an old woman walking down the street side by side; if one reaches out and holds the hand of the other, they are both transformed.
This is the flower and vase dialectic. The tulips enhance the loveliness of the vase, the vase gives form to the tulips. The hard, clear lines of the vase contrast pleasantly with the soft curves and color of the tulips. Together they please the eye and the mind and the heart. It’s as true of the vase and flower as it is of the old man and woman.
Separately, they are each a prayer. Together, they become the answer to the prayer.
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