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Petal Tongue, the artist’s second exhibition with Maya Frodeman Gallery, showcases a selection of paintings which present the natural world in a heightened state and combine Diamond’s ongoing interests in optics and pattern with direct observation and invention. Diamond offers viewers a glimpse into a subliminal macrocosm as she skillfully navigates the convergence of outer and interior worlds; inanimate or sentient, her subjects remain in a state of becoming, straddling the familiar and the alien as her vision of them merges the observed and the imagined. Marked by an intensity of focus …