Flowers for Mom: Photographs by Elmore DeMott

Photographer Elmore DeMott earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and fine art from Vanderbilt University before embarking on a career in banking. From there, she moved into arts administration and then photography, in order to exercise her creative instincts and put her talents to work.

Her Flowers for Mom series resulted from her decision in August of 2016 to produce a daily floral image for her mother, then in the grip of Alzheimer’s disease. The result was a series of more than seven hundred unique images, several of which are featured here. The series led to an arts collaboration with the San Francisco–based Del Sol String Quartet in 2017 in which a digital presentation of Flowers for Mom served as the backdrop for their performance of Crossings, two quartets by Ben Johnston.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website