Perennia, 2025, mixed media, 10 x 10 in. / 25.4 x 25.4 cm.

Perennia, Jennifer Book Haselswerdt, 2025, mixed media, 10 x 10 in. / 25.4 x 25.4 cm.

An experimental piece borne from a nature walk I took with my students. As we observed local ecology, I was transfixed by the spiral in the center of an oxeye daisy, a reminder that everything is connected in the swirl of the galaxy. The ephemera of time is represented in the petals’ fraying edges