acrylic
"Afternoon" positions its striped vessel against warm honey washes, bold black and white lines anchoring an arrangement that seems to have grown rather than been placed. The work layers painted blooms with fragments of found text, each collaged element carrying whispers of other stories, other afternoons. Green leaves reach and curl with confident brushstrokes while the newsprint petals suggest both fragility and permanence, the way memories hold their shape in unexpected materials. The composition breathes with unresolved tensions between the geometric certainty of the vase and the organic sprawl of what it contains, between the specificity of text and the universality of floral form. Here, the everyday ritual of arranging flowers becomes archaeology, each element a recovered fragment of time spent in the gentle labor of making beauty from what's at hand.
acrylic
"Afternoon" positions its striped vessel against warm honey washes, bold black and white lines anchoring an arrangement that seems to have grown rather than been placed. The work layers painted blooms with fragments of found text, each collaged element carrying whispers of other stories, other afternoons. Green leaves reach and curl with confident brushstrokes while the newsprint petals suggest both fragility and permanence, the way memories hold their shape in unexpected materials. The composition breathes with unresolved tensions between the geometric certainty of the vase and the organic sprawl of what it contains, between the specificity of text and the universality of floral form. Here, the everyday ritual of arranging flowers becomes archaeology, each element a recovered fragment of time spent in the gentle labor of making beauty from what's at hand.
