Original artwork description:

One of my favourite memories as a child was a visit to the water lily pond in Adelaide's Botanical Gardens.
Every summer Adelaide Botanic Garden's Nelumbo Pond springs to life, with its sacred lotus flowers. (Nelumbo nucifera) .
For centuries, the lotus has been a divine representation of sexual purity and non-attachment and a symbol of fertility, beauty and prosperity. Also new beginnings, as the flower rises up from the mud.

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