When possible plants are pressed 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.

Concerning B. Sharp's gold leaf sides on shelf sculpture:
the method of working a fine gold laminate was learned as an apprentice to an Italian goldsmith, the layering, varnish and
finish of melded layers as Renaissancefurniture makers used it
500 years ago, an organic rather than an industrial patina. Artisan work of this kind requires days of application even for surfaces 8" long and 1.5" in depth (size of the small self sculptures). All materials, varnish, brushes, and leaf are imported from manufacturers in the city of Florence.          

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 pallet,
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 3d 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 spacial interest that does not
fail or fade.

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