I cheated and looked at the one with color too. There is something uniquely different about the b/w in that most of us expect our flowers to have color and this one doesn't, but it shows up the textures and shadings on a subtler level and asks us to comtemplate the "idea" of 'flower' or 'water lily'. I really like this.
You will be led to the knowledge of the internal things which are invisible to you, by the external things which you see before you. . . . Even so then, we can represent to ourselves in thought the Author of all that is, by contemplating and admiring the (visible) things which He has made, and ever brings into being.
- Hermes
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