Phylinda Moore, 2025

The spark for this show came from the extreme budget cuts our local farms are experiencing. Two Boots, Moon Valley, and many others are impacted. Out of that awareness flowered an idea for community expansion, involvement, and a way to grow support.

This body of work highlights the interconnectedness of our community and the farms nourishing us with beauty and sustenance. Partnering with the farms and the Judy Center’s Food for Health program, is a way to directly support our community at a local level. 

Duality as a harmonious relationship: We live as part of nature’s harmonious duality: sun/moon, life/death, day/night, bloom/decay. 

Two Boots’ inspirational flowers are a perfect subject to express love for our land. A flower’s life cycle mirrors our own, and they are a potent symbol of our experience on this planet. 

Flowers accompany all our momentous transitions. Our celebrations and our sorrows. Each day we are asked to open, to live, to die, to expand. Each day is a momentous transition. 

 The energy of flowers: a translator, a channel, a conduit to connection. 

Flowers are a gift, an honoring, a reverence: 

  to empathy. 

                       to ache.

                                 to beauty. 

                                              to love.

This coming together reflects the lived qualities of these organizations. The farms are committed to sustainability and nurturing the earth through growing their chosen plant sources. The community outreach program sustains and nurtures children and their families. The brewery supports and cultivates community and creativity. All are a living representation of how we can nurture each other and our earth together.

 How it Works:

• I will donate 50% of the profits, from the show and from any website purchases made during the show, to expanding the Judy Center: Frederick County and Moon Valley’s Food for Health successful program.

• Emma, Moon Valley’s owner, will match, in produce for the program, the amount I raise through the show.

• Looking for more ways to donate? Corporate sponsorship, and direct donations, are available through the Moon Valley website where you can also learn more about the program: moonvalley.net. Events will be held at the Sandbox throughout the show.