For the past five years, especially during the Covid sabbatical, I have been spending virtually every day during the season in the field trying to complete my gallery of Texas Hill Country wildflowers. There are now 3000 portraits in the gallery. There are a few gaps, but for the most part I am finished and ready to move on to the next project.

One use of the portraits is the development of a wildflower wall showing how these flowers use every color in the visible spectrum (not to mention ultraviolet) to attract pollinators. The wall is currently designed is an octoptych (an eight-panel polyptych) that is 4′ by 24′. I will add interpretive panels at each end, so the final wall will be 4′ by 30′.

The individual portraits themselves are formatted in the gallery as 2′ by 2′, so conceivably the wall could be 8′ by 48′ without the interpretive panels at the ends.

There is many more individual elements in this collection, but the wildflower wall may be the most dramatic.

For additional information about the exhibit and all of its component parts, contact me directly at Fermata Inc.

Ted Lee Eubanks