by Arthur Whitman
Ithaca Times,
December 20, 2015
Illustrator milly acharya and photographer Susan Larkin create eloquent botanical studies. Painted with watercolor in shades of rusty brown, acharya’s Miscanthus sinensis shows the flowering grass as a dense tangle. Her meticulous realism captures the specimen with an eerie sense of suspended motion. Larkin’s black-and-white digital photo Asclepias syriaca (milkweed) has a marvelous sense of chiaroscuro (light/dark contrast)—making her subject pop like a Baroque painting.