
Soliloquy to Be

by Debra Banks
Title
Soliloquy to Be
Artist
Debra Banks
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Soliloquy "the act of talking while or as if alone."
Hamlet's soliloquy begins with “To be or not to be.”
Not Photoshopped but taken at night with a flash helps to really capture the wonderful details and to make this solitary flower be the only focus against the black background by adjusting contrast and illumination levels
Jerusalem Artichoke often called “sunchokes” are native to North America and Europe and are no relation at all to artichokes AND belong to the sunflower family. The white flesh is nutty, sweet and crunchy like chestnuts when raw.
Italian settlers in the United States called the plant girasole, the Italian word for sunflower, because of its familial relationship to the garden sunflower (both plants are members of the genus Helianthus).
The name topinambur, in one account, dates from 1615, when a member of the Brazilian coastal tribe called the Tupinambá visited the Vatican at the same time that a sample of the tuber from Canada was on display there, presented as a critical food source that helped French Canadian settlers survive the winter. The New World connection resulted in the name topinambur being applied to the tuber, the word now used in French, German, Italian, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish.
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August 24th, 2021
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group.11/8/23

Luther Fine Art
Congratulations! Your camera art has been nominated as a Special Feature by a fellow artist Camera Art member for your superb art in Camera Art Group!! You are invited to post your art in the Special Feature Archive Discussion in the Camera Art group. Please share the love by nominating a fellow artist whose work is in Camera Art You can do that in the "Artist Special Feature Nomination" discussion in the Camera Art Group.

Gigi Thomas
Your awesome creation has been FEATURED on the ABSTRACT FEATURES DAILY GROUP Home Page! Congrats! Self Posting Available on the Discussion page.