Grey Green Monch Aster

Grey Green Monch AsterWhen my sister called to ask what to hang above a couch in her new apartment, I suggested what any reasonable person would: a tasteful print of dogs playing poker. She responded by sending me a link to what looked like something Claude Monet would have created if he'd quit waterlilies and decided to work exclusively in ceramics while going through a Miami Beach phase. "It's wall art," she insisted, as if capitalizing the words somehow justified the

I never thought I'd find myself waxing poetic about a ceramic flower

Because the stems are short and the water moves up the stem quicker

I was convinced: these diminutive daisies weren't just wall art

complete with its own little keyhole backing like some Victorian-era secret passage in miniature

It's unapologetically massive

and I don't even need water to prove it

presented it to me with the enthusiasm of a child showing off a macaroni masterpiece

it was bold

" Who knew what to hang in a kitchen could make such a difference

Every time I look at it while making dinner

It's abstract

there's a lot of Swedish ancestry at Chive and when the Vikings TV series came out we convinced ourselves that we were related to Ragna Lothbrok