For anyone not familiar with Georgia O'Keeffe's art and its readings, a search of the internet with just three keywords - Georgia O’Keeffe flowers – may come with surprising results. The majority of texts on the first several pages of the results will be with similar titles. They put these three words in conjunction with the word vagina, or vulva, as if something that naturally comes together. But how the link between Georgia O’Keeffe flowers and vagina became so strong that is unavoidable today, and more importantly, how much veracity is in it? Can we ascribe her work to this singular interpretation, leaving aside all others, and how did this perspective start to dominate over others, especially if we had in mind that the artist rejected it herself?
