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The gossamer veils of the common onion star in my photographic exploration of ephemeral beauty. The onion bears heavy responsibility as a core ingredient in both recipe and metaphor, with its veil trivialized in metaphor and summarily tossed away in cooking. I find a lyrical beauty in the shapes, colors and elegant flourishes that these translucent veils take on in the natural light.

Georgia O’Keeffe’s statement, “I often painted fragments of things because it seemed to make my statement as well as or better than the whole could,” gave me permission to consider the lowly onion as a photographic muse and examine its fragments and details. In an onion, indeed the parts are the same as the whole, metaphorically, artistically and in reality. As intimate as some of the fragments may be, there is no mistaking the whole in this ode to an onion.