My flowers are created out of sculpted acrylic paint on a wire skeleton. This piece depicts an unnatural bed of flowers, that are frozen at the moment between life and death.  My flowers embody the binary opposition of life and death by appearing to wilt, but existing in stasis, where their blooms never fully die and remain vibrant. I utilize flowers as a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of life itself, for once they blossom they die shortly after. To know that they cannot last and that time will destroy them. This is true for almost all living things and I desire to have those who see my work reflect on how quickly time passes in life and just how delicate life can be. I hope through this, my work can encourage the enjoyment of life, for as long as possible.

Surviving

'Comeuppance' captures the relationship between humans and nature when our roles are reversed, a moment where nature picks back. 
The blue-faced figure is seen holding a flower they picked while walking through a forest.  Fate takes a twist and a hoard of flora appears and picks the figure like they are the flower, wrapping the figure in its vines until it begins to suffocate. This act is nature's justice.
The flower monster is a personification of nature, both beautiful and deadly. Flowers represent ephemera and are typically objects of pleasure. The choice of flowers was done with irony - that this usually delicate and harmless subject matter becomes a being of violence and revenge.

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