Violet blue reads like a bruise on a very good day, which sounds wrong and is exactly right. The Violet Blue Cornel Dahlia — a ceramic wall flower, 5.5 inches across, one screw, no water — is compact and fully articulated, every petal present and committed to the form. Todd has observed that this is the piece visitors ask about first, which he attributes to the color being the kind of thing that takes a moment to accept and then becomes impossible to ignore. It has not once felt the need to explain this.