Bouquet Series
In the series "Baroque Still Life Inspired Work" I aimed to create a bouquet of flowers with studies of Baroque Master Rachel Ruysch's still lives layered in between abstracted backgrounds, breaking apart the original paintings in appreciation but leading somewhere new.
The series "Hand-made paints and naturally dyed Bouquets" followed the "Baroque Still Life Inspired Work" and included images from flowers in Chicago and my own garden as well as background paints and dyes made from natural sources as well as some made from grocery store food coloring. I aimed to appreciate the life around me, soft and strong, yielding but miraculous.
The large scale bouquets is the series I am currently working on, which started through experiments of grand swaths of color juxtaposed with transparent outlines of insects, florals and other plant life. I began to be more intrigued by what it means to be truly at home, appreciating the plant life, pollinators and other insects around us. How they work symbiotically within the environment in which we also exist. Concurrently working on this series and "Viewpoints on Motherhood", I am realizing that these two series exploring similar threads of the same topic.