The delicate violet, which some gardeners consider a weed, has much written about it from historical and social perspectives. I really enjoyed The Language of Flowers, a novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh, where the violet is referenced as meaning "modest worth," with modesty seeming to be the universally accepted meaning in other sources.
I severely underestimated the challenges this painting would present to me, given that I enlarged the subject so much.
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