In the photograph titled "Resurrection," Lee references the fable of Shimcheongin, about a girl who throws herself into the sea and comes back to life inside a blooming lotus.
Alligators of every size swam around us navigating through cinematic swamps bursting with blooming lotus blossoms.
A delicate blooming lotus, for example, supplants the lily that traditionally signifies Mary in the West, and a Chinese abacus accompanies a scene of Jesus and the money changers.
From U-Ram Choe's blooming lotuses to Joachim Sauter's levitating silver spheres, kinetic sculptures are evolving into experiential installations that are breathtaking in their mechanics, aesthetics, and scale.
Classical Indian texts tell us that our gods delight in dwelling in towns with pleasure gardens and near ponds blooming with lotuses and resounding with the pleasant calls of aquatic birds.
The next week, I saw a number of these sacred lotuses blooming in the lily pool at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
As you learn about Ganna Walska, the would-be opera singer from Poland who created Lotusland, you'll also discover a dazzling array of exotic and rare plants, from the towering birds of paradise and wacky succulents to elegant pink lotuses blooming out of muddy waters -- a real-life "Fantasia".
It depicts the traditional account of the prince taking seven steps, which resulted in seven lotuses blooming spontaneously, followed by Siddhartha pointing to the sky with his index finger and declaring that this life would be his last in samsara.
Huge displays of cannas, bananas, palms, taro and all kinds of other Victorian favorites border the formal pool where the lotuses are blooming.
There's nothing there". In the old days, the blooming of the Echo Park lotuses eclipsed the largest, most sumptuous canvases of Monet.
Throughout the year they collect roses, hydrangea, sedum (some discarded from fresh bouquets) and seed heads -- allium, poppies, pine cones, acorns, sweet gum balls, wild rose hips, cinnamon fern seed heads, bracket fungus, gourds, ornamental grass blooms and lotus pods.
