Beauty Versus Beauty — Emily Hamilton Laux

Beauty Versus Beauty addresses ideas about ecology, biodiversity, and individual notions of beauty in nature. This long-term project is a personal exploration of the plants that grow in our backyards, along the edges of fields and parking lots, as well flora that are cultivated for their beauty.

By portraying selected plant species in isolation or with one or two other species, I invite viewers to question their own concepts of beauty and function in the landscape, and explore ideas about biodiversity through my observation of native, invasive, naturalized and cultivated species of plants.

Dahlia + Red Clover, 2018

Ferns + Japanese Knotweed, 2015

Florida Tasselflower (Emilia Fosbergii), 2017

White Campion, Red Clover + Smartweed, 2017

Giant White Bird of Paradise + White Crinum Lily, 2021

White Campion, Sweet Mock-orange Blossom + Queen Anne's Lace, 2018

Sensitive Fern + Echinacea, 2015

Stargazer Lily, 2016

Sensitive Fern + Red Clover, 2016

Rose Hips + Common Burdock, 2017

Bombax + White Crinum Lily, 2017

Common Burdock + Sweet Mock-Orange Blossom, 2017

Bryphyllum Pinnatum + White Crinum Lily, 2017

Cyperus involucratus + Bougainvillea, 2017

Allium + Mullein, 2017

Sea Grape + Dune Sunflower, 2017

Brazilian Pepper Tree + Sea Grape, 2017

Bittersweet + White Oak, 2016

Bittersweet, 2016

Bittersweet + Apple Blossom, 2016

Porcelainberry + Red Maple, 2015

Yellow Peony + White Pine, 2018

Installation view of 24 x 36 Beauty Versus Beauty

Griffin Museum Installation, 2019

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