Faculty of Design

Illustration

Zoë Belkin

One Perfect Rose

A woman admires her "one perfect rose".

“Inspired by the poem "One Perfect Rose", by Dorothy Parker, this illustration depicts a perfume advertisement for the fictional perfume brand, "One Perfect Rose". Although in the poem, the woman regrets not receiving something more extravagant such as a limousine, in my illustration, the woman is happy to receive one perfect rose as a limousine drives away in the background. One Perfect Rose"A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.All tenderly his messenger he chose; Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet- One perfect rose.I knew the language of the floweret; My fragile leaves," it said, "his heart enclose", Love long has taken for his amuletOne perfect rose.Why is it no one ever sent me yetOne perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to getOne perfect rose."-Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope"”