An Accidental Artwork

This morning I was reading the January issue of  Martha Stewart Living looking for recipe ideas for dinner tonight. I was ruminating on how it might feel to live on a daily basis with any of her stunning decors and flower arrangements. Then I came to "The Root of the Matter", an article on plant sickness. Seeing droopy plants in a Martha Stewart magazine was quite the trip. It was like the feeling of Van Gogh's beautiful dying sunflowers with a sickening antiseptic twist. Unlike a Van Gogh though, where life and death in the sunflowers appear natural together, the contrast between the natural sickness presented in the article and unnatural perfection in the rest of the magazine was kind of jarring.