This week's darling: Jitka Hanzlová – Cotton Rose

In 2004 Jitka Hanzlová was invited to take part in the project European Eyes on Japan.

She travelled through Japan for two years, visiting cities and villages. The tender cotton rose — a plant, against all odds, reemerges in spring after surviving the harsh winters — came to symbolize for her the Japanese soul: fragile and tenacious at once.

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