During the violent summer of 2020 I wanted to take on a project with fragile, unstable materials. I decided to use flowers because of their loaded referential potential - touching on things as disparate as painted vanitas, medicine, hippies, and domestic decoration - as well as their availability outside around San Francisco where I lived at the time. The flowers were dried and pressed onto a thin rice paper that would inevitably wrinkle and warp. Some abstract architectural forms and patterns were included with the intent to create an ambiguous or even confusing sense of space and context around these organic, deteriorating forms.

Flower Box, 2020, Pressed flowers and gouache on rice paper, 10.5″x 14″ each