A collage of twenty-five pink tulips photographed individually on black, each arranged in unique personified poses resembling emotional gestures.
A collage of twenty-five pink tulips photographed individually on black, each arranged in unique personified poses resembling emotional gestures.

Tulips: Twenty-Five Gestures of Love

$0.00
sold out

16” x 16” canvas print

Tulips: Twenty-Five Gestures of Love” is a tender study in tulip personification, capturing twenty-five unique moments of connection, emotion, and movement. Each vignette reveals a different posture—protective curves, intertwined stems, playful reaches, quiet embraces—forming a symbolic language of love expressed through floral form. Against a deep black backdrop, these vivid pink tulips appear almost human, offering a visual meditation on intimacy, vulnerability, and the many ways affection takes shape.
Perfect for collectors of surreal floral fine art and contemporary still-life photography.

Available for purchase Jan 1, 2026. Email us for specific earlier requests.

16” x 16” canvas print

Tulips: Twenty-Five Gestures of Love” is a tender study in tulip personification, capturing twenty-five unique moments of connection, emotion, and movement. Each vignette reveals a different posture—protective curves, intertwined stems, playful reaches, quiet embraces—forming a symbolic language of love expressed through floral form. Against a deep black backdrop, these vivid pink tulips appear almost human, offering a visual meditation on intimacy, vulnerability, and the many ways affection takes shape.
Perfect for collectors of surreal floral fine art and contemporary still-life photography.

Available for purchase Jan 1, 2026. Email us for specific earlier requests.

Gallery Description: In Tulips: Twenty-Five Gestures of Love, Rusty Umphenour arranges tulips as living performers, exploring the expressive potential of personified botanical forms. Each frame isolates a single emotional gesture—tension, trust, longing, devotion—created solely through the arrangement of stems, leaves, and blooms. Presented as a unified collage, the series becomes a choreography of quiet narratives, where flowers step into the evocative role of human figures.
This work continues Umphenour’s broader exploration of surreal still-life, using minimalism and deep-shadow isolation to highlight the psychological resonance of floral motion.