If You Were a Plant, What Would You Be?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
By Sam Gehrke
(Sam Gehrke)

"I'd be a cannabis plant because I make everyone happy."

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"I'd be a marijuana plant, because you get happy, hungry and sleepy, and I'm all of those things."

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"I'd be aloe vera. That one's easy, because I'm a recovering burn victim."

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"I'd be an angel wing begonia or a fig tree."

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"Oh, no question: I'd be a rose."

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"I'd be bamboo, because it's pretty but also strong. It can get cut down but grows back really quickly, and stronger. I kinda see it as a nice metaphor for how life can be."

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"I'd be ivy, because ivy can survive anywhere."

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Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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