Artist Statement

My project is a series of paintings which use flowers as a point of departure. The purpose of this project is to decode nature in a non-representational and personal way, by fusing my feelings and ideas to my imagination in visual form.

I intend to create a body of work based on my observations of flowers. When I see the flowers, I think about how they bloom every year. I want my life to be blooming like a flower. This feeling helps me create my paintings forms, and how they are personified and symbolized. I begin by making drawings of the flower, thus, the composition of each painting is formed by organic shapes such as flowers, seeds and leaves. While composing these paintings, I used a variety of materials to create various gestures based on flowers by using brushes, knives, sticks, and pencils. These agitated gestures in the relatively open spaces of the paintings stimulate and evoke feeling and emotion in the viewer.