The best flowers of all …

19th century poet, art critic, decadent and dandy Charles Baudelaire is paid tribute when local artist Navé presents works in oil inspired by Baudelaire’s infamous book of poetry, Les Fleurs du Mal—The Flowers of Evil. Baudelaire is considered the first truly modern poet due to his fascination with cities, street life, petty criminals, whores, mind-altering substances, freaks, dissipation, and the generally lurid underbelly of so-called civilization. It should be noted, however, that even amongst these sordid mundanities, he perceived and described the miraculous.