emotional gardening
Blossoms of Meaning
My emotions pour the blossoms of the enchanted reality of painting. Flowers emerge not just as plants but as living metaphors, creating their lives with layers of meaning. Ritualized across the globe, flowers are gestures of connection, celebration, love, and mourning. Their symbolic significance lingers, even as they wilt, reminding us of the fleeting of existence.
Cultural Tense
Cut flowers, removed from their ground, have become commercial symbols within the floral industry. Yet, their commodification does not strip them of meaning. Flowers remain connected to rituals, art, and history, balancing their organic essence with their symbolic. Butterflies resting on flowers symbolize freedom being part of a greater organism.
From patterns inspired by flowers to the metaphors, flowers are deeply woven into personal and cultural narratives. They open towards timelessness. Their vibrant pigments, some of humanity’s oldest artistic tools, have been harnessed to translate their essence into enduring creative expressions.
Flowers become
To make a flower is to engage in a profound process—whether by nature, human hand, or imagination. Flowers are relationships: with sunlight, water, pollinators, and people. They teach us that beauty is not static but an evolving act of creation.
In their making, we find life in motion, an art form perpetually unfolding, reminding us of our capacity to grow, create, and connect. At the same time, this becoming is for its own sake, like I see painting. Only after realizing this, a new perspective or understanding can be developed. Not knowing what is evolving is being at peace with becoming.
Using sound, drawing, and live performance, I aim to construct a space where different media interact in an evolving, reciprocal process.