The Divine Remains

Love remembers in quiet ways. Here lies a pressed flower collection, an echo of a well-loved garden. Blooms plucked from the beds of a friend, a gardener, whose husband passed away after 50 years of tending and tenderness. Two pairs of hands that took a bare patch of soil and shaped, shaded and loved a garden, a life, into living. He would slip beautiful flowers into the books in their library where she would later discover them - precious, stained glass “I love you’s”. With each discovery between the pages, the eternal lingers with the ephemeral once again. The love story embedded in these love-lit, crushed-flower delights, was brought to life by New Zealand photographer, David Lupton, and award-winning Central American poet, Leonel Alvarado.