Sensitive and compelling depictions of the most treasured and fragile plants provide Angelina McCormick’s photographs of flowers with a timeless appeal. Crystalline images of flowers, presented against a stark white or spotlighted background, become expressive beings of natural wonder. This staging puts the onus on the quality and arrangement of leaf, petal, and stamen as carriers of the message or theme. When captured in various stages of decay, the flowers become a catalyst for pondering our own cycle of life. One photograph may pulsate with intense crimson while the next shows crumpled petals with the color and life drained out. “My photographic art is about bringing something that did not previously exist into being,” she explains. “My work is simply about creation.” But too, we see that McCormick’s art also explores the events after creation, indeed, the repercussions of our being. Besides creating her distinctive art, she also teaches at the School of the Photographic Arts in Ottawa. McCormick exhibits her work frequently in Canada and the United States.