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Laleh

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Description

Tulipa gesneriana Common name: Garden Tulip The word tulip comes from the Turkish for turban, which is kind of perfect when you think about a bud like this, everything wrapped tight, folded into itself. In the Ottoman Empire, they had a whole era named after this flower. Not the bloom, the idea of it. Sultans collected varieties the way other rulers collected territory, and the rarest bulbs were worth more than houses during the mania that hit Holland in the 1600s. But before all of that, before the speculation and the palace gardens, a tulip was just a wildflower on a Central Asian mountainside that somebody noticed. In Persian culture, they called them laleh and tied them to Nowruz, the new year, the moment when everything starts again. Rumi used them as metaphors. The thing is, a tulip that hasn't opened yet contains every possible version of itself. Could be red, could be purple, could be something nobody expected. The Ottomans actually believed the tulip was a written form of Allah, the Arabic letters lining up. A closed bud, then, is maybe a prayer that hasn't been spoken out loud. © Corina Daniela Obertas Photography. All rights reserved. The purchase of this NFT grants the collector ownership of the token only. Full copyright, reproduction rights, and commercial usage rights remain exclusively with the artist. No part of this artwork may be reproduced, distributed, printed, licensed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written consent from the artist.

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tulipa gesneriana

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tulip

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