In my most recent work I explore the artistic tropes of the floral still life and flowers to examine ideas of remembrance, femininity and queerness in it's modern sense as well as it's original meaning of something strange and or peculiar.
I’m looking to reclaiming flowers from their somewhat domestic life, after all, historically (until relatively recently) female artists were not permitted to paint much else.
I am decontextualizing and subverting photographic flowers by redacting with ink. Sometimes blocking out the detail and delicacy completely with ink brush marks, making shadows and silhouettes; an absence of light. The ink has fluidity and eventually dries, a permanent record of the space the flowers once took up. Halves is a series in a larger body of work.
