Hollyhocks 21 (Summer's Splendor**)

Rising like quiet sentinels, the hollyhocks gather their white and magenta faces into a gentle chorus, each bloom catching light as if it were a held breath against the broad, airy blue. The composition is built on vertical rhythms—stems as pillars, petals as soft interruptions—where warm ochres at the flower hearts punctuate the cool field and keep the eye moving in a calm, upward ascent. Loose, painterly transitions in the background dissolve the horizon into atmosphere, suggesting not a specific garden but a remembered season, where growth becomes a metaphor for resilience and renewed tenderness.