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From her blog post:
> White florals occupy a peculiar space in folklore. At first glance they seem to be flowers of contradiction, embodying innocence and purity while simultaneously notorious for their heady, seductive powers; but these are two sides of the same coin. 
> the longing for a place of uncontaminated innocence and unconditional love and the inevitable and controversial burden of life.
> Savage animalia meets petal-white innocence in an ode to that endless tightrope act, striving to balance an aching, ashamed hunger for repentance with the curiosity and acceptance of flaws innate to the human condition.
> made up of feelings of sin and guilt – real, or even worse, imaginary.
> The double nature of any human being: longing to perfection, innocence, absence of mistake, to a place uncontaminated by sin from one side, and the inevitable fallibility and impossibility of amending mistakes.
> White flowers continue to be a powerful badge of purity, not despite the now-repressed eroticism of the Bible but in part because of it. However frequently misguided, attempts at forming spiritual allegories are not entirely in vain. The eroticism in Song of Songs does not negate the holiness of its love but rather reinforce it, leaving plenty of room for allegories on soul unions with both God and a lover, and space for lilies to flourish as concurrently pure and sensual, for all who live in love live in God and God lives in them.
> Beyond vulgar interpretations of the word based on the myth of being physically sullied, the Christian conception of purity remains a largely unattainable metaphysical state to continuously strive for against all odds; but in an alternate sense of the word, purity permeates all actions born out of love and grace. To be able to even attempt to live and love in the name of goodness remains a holy gift regardless of formalities and external factors. 
> To live is to contradict and see-saw, and acceptance of this is not embracing any semblance of "impurity," but rather relishing life itself as a dialectical experience, learning through action and coming to terms with not only ourselves, but morality, love, death, sensuality, resentment, ecstasy, and transgression.