A rose is a prickly bush or shrub that typically bears red, pink, yellow, or white fragrant flowers, native to north temperate regions. There are numerous hybrids and cultivars that have been developed and are widely grown as ornamental. They are given names like Michelangelo, Rhapsody in Blue, and Amala. The paintings came about while Ariel Dill watched her mother, the artist Ann Thronycroft, nurture her rose garden. Tending to the fragility and strength of the rose and its variations is a seasonal puzzle. Roses are inextricably linked to romantic love, transcendence, death, purity, religion and are tended to by devoted gardeners like Ann. They are also winsomely rendered in ceramic knick knacks as endearing and cute symbols of love. Roses on little cats, roses on a bell, roses on seashells, roses with a hummingbird, roses in the palm of a hand. The images set side by side with the paintings, collected from Ebay by Denise Schatz, bring out the weird, and sometimes haunting experience of attraction to objects.