Alchemilla vulgaris

John Armleder's *Alchemilla vulgaris* combines oil, enamel, and glitter on canvas to create a surface that oscillates between painterly tradition and decorative excess. The work reflects Armleder's longstanding engagement with the boundaries of abstraction, appropriation, and the aesthetics of ornament, inviting questions about taste, value, and visual pleasure. The addition of glitter disrupts any purely formalist reading, injecting a playful, seductive quality that challenges hierarchies between fine art and kitsch.