vitória régia

blooming only two nights, the white, female phase flower of the Victoria amazonica attracts cyclocephala beetles with it's sweet scent, closing in on itself in the morning and trapping the beetles within. 

opening on the second night as a pink, male flower, the beetles escape covered in pollen, which they then carry to a newly opened female flower on another plant. 

the pollinated flower retreats underwater, closer to the mud in which the seeds germinate. 

in this edition, one print remains black and white, while the remaining are overlaid with large watercolor swaths. these marks abstractly replicate the pollination process, saturating the once white flower. The pigment moves like pollen dust, settling and spreading across the image, both revealing and obscuring the flower’s delicate and complex structure.

22” x 30”

september 2025

lithography, watercolor