Ophelia

Ashley Woodson Bailey Verified independent store

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There is a particular beauty in the moment just before. Ophelia captures a dahlia at the very edge of its bloom — petals unfurling, curling, releasing — luminous in cream and blush and the faintest bruise of violet against a dark, velvet ground. It is not a portrait of decay. It is a portrait of grace. Of something that has lived fully and is not finished being beautiful. Show more