Inscribed with title and date on the front.

John Blakemore writes that “

I decided that I could use them to develop the ideas that had informed the Amergen image. The objects found in the garden evoking the past of the space, a species of archaeology, relating both to the present and the past of the garden, to more general social and historical discourses. Using plants from the garden evoked the cycle of the year, linked the images to the present of the garden.

I then utilised the same working methods with my tulip photographs making the series Mutations and The Generations. I was intrigued by the thought that the reality of the images was constructed through the process of photographing, that no corresponding 'reality' existed." (John Blakemore, Photographs 1955-2010, **Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2010 (p.164))