The middle of the miniature is dominated by a large treetrunk in front of which a rosebush is in bloom. |
Thus, for example, the interlacing of the branches of a rosebush is known to invoke hope. |
These people looked on a blossoming rosebush, a colourfully-woven cloth or a painted wardrobe with quite different eyes. |
But the sun's shining, the daisies are out, the roses look terrifically healthy, and my rosebush payments are running out. |
Second, Tuymans discovers in the very humiliation of the medium a vitality as surprising as a rosebush on the moon. |
We sat outside my house for a couple of hours, then gathered the money into the front pocket on my cagoule, hid the box under the rosebush, and went home for tea. |