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What appealed to me at first about the rose in this painting was the shape, sort of a Japanese Peony motif. Unlike the Japanese peony, this rose hovers between the ideal and the imperfect. I like that it is not symmetrical and that there is a hole in it! It seems that we are always looking for beauty in perfection, and in reality very few things are. Its a little harder but very rewarding to find beauty in the natural unfolding of things.