Bowing to the Mystery

I am fascinated by the tension between apparent opposites, such as, strength and fragility, or timelessness and impermanence. I also love to garden and press flowers. The Queen Anne’s Lace flower looks especially beautiful when it is pressed—the crooked stems and the delicate shapes of the flowers feel very emotional and expressive. And because pressing flowers has, for hundreds of years, been a kind of domestic art, it’s traditionally always been small and contained. I wanted to see if I could make larger work with the flowers, and use their repetition to help me express big abstract ideas like Transcendence and Abundance.

In the video below, I share some of my thinking process about several pieces in this ongoing body of work.