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Patricia Taxxon
Mapplethorpe's flowers are equally sensual. The supple, voluptuous shape of this calla lily's trumpetlike outer petal and inner flower, is in Mapplethorpe's photograph, as erotic as any painted flower abstraction by Georgia O'Keeffe. The coiling and twisting forms of the flower in prime bloom suggest the universal life-affirming symbolism of all flowers