In addition, this piece has been published in ORCHID MAGAZINE, May 2006, with the following critique from David Horvak, author and Orchid curator at the Brooklin Botanic Gardens:

"This disarmingly powerful watercolor study of an inflorescence in the last stages of its show is really quite an unexpected, but special surprise. Submitted to this competition in the midst of so many other works displayed at their peak of bloom and vibrancy, it seems like an unworthy subject, depicted almost with pity or scorn. Emerging from the lower left side of the page it is suspended over the stark white background with its sole remaining turgid flower at the end, shown in profile, stretching out in show. Decidedly allegorical in feeling, this side view presentation reveals a sequence of spent flowers with the second to last flower, fully frontal and centered on the page, in the midst of collapse."