Don’t Explain

This was a perfume story that I wanted to tell. Originally, I had a totally different story envisioned that was purely about a special gardenia soliflore (as a gift for Ida Meister) but when I started my Women Artist Series (and I always knew that I would feature Billie Holiday) the idea came to make this design about these TWO wonderful women artists instead of either /or. I love how they come together through time and space (and Billie’s incredibly moving song, Don’t Explain) magnified through the lens of expressing the gardenia concept that Ida and I had discussed so many years ago.