Sometimes a rose is just a rose, as Gertrude Stein famously remarked.

A flower just a flower.

That’s what American painter Georgia O’Keeffe claimed about her flower paintings, despite Alfred Stieglitz’ attempts to market them as symbolic.

They are paintings of…flowers. What you see in them is on you.

And that’s yet another thing to love about flowers. They can become a canvas for our own projections.

This weekend, create your own flower abstracts.

Grab a macro lens (you can get cheap clip-ons for your smartphone if you don’t have one yet) and dive into the heart of flowers.

Photograph them, sketch them, crayon them, paint them…and leave it to us to interpret their meaning.

Share your flowers using the hashtag #kramerseye on Instagram or Twitter.