When possible plants are press within 48 hours and retain their natural subtlety of color and texture. There is no technical enhancement of the original hues, though subtlety cannot be entirely reproduced, and the contrasts tend to blur in the photos. The images are actual flowers culled and arranged from both North and South America by Bobby Sharp, the composition he makes of them suggested by the natural geometry, organisms color palette, and the growths forms as they occur seasonally. The actual figures are used, as invented abstract shapes would be, that is, organized for the purpose of expression in the transparent field, not a portrait copy of landscape. Sharp's concern is with the botanic detail, the many motifs flower and leaf provide for his composition, immediate as no medium copy is, the spatial complexity due to actual things placed in relation to true color and form, not a nature morte whose elements are invented or copied. The casing of rock plastic provides a neutral element, merely sheen to the arrangement framed by its dimensions, whose depth provides the artist with a field, a third dimension by which to emphasize his elements and place them as facets occur in crystal. The transparency, moreover, has form and weight, the character of a sculpture. The viewer can delve into, itself a thing in a world of elements, a synthetic mineral as amber would be, in which temporary things are preserved. The work gives the effect of natural sculpture, a transparency of space whose internal contours are articulate to the eye to which it shows botanical shapes, the artistry of spatial interests that does not fail or fade.

Robert Horn, U.S. Editor of the Quarterly review "XX Siècle"