This body of work is a vibrant homage to identity, metamorphosis, and cultural hybridity. Created for Pride 2025, the collection celebrates queer joy through richly layered materiality—pairing painterly techniques with found and fabricated objects like lace, LEGO florals, and textiles. Each piece inhabits the liminal space between nature and artifice, ornament and memory, inviting viewers into an immersive world where resilience blooms in full color.
Eden
This diptych evokes the lush mysticism of a garden in bloom beneath soft rainfall. A vertical cascade of lavender and periwinkle washes sets the stage for an ecstatic arrangement of flowers, fruits, and engineered flora. Against the streaming rain backdrop, each LEGO bloom and painted petal pulses with life, suggesting both abundance and renewal. Glossed fruits, waxed buds, and pale blossoms emerge as if from a dream—half myth, half memory. "Eden" is both a celebration of natural growth and an allegory for queer flourishing, capturing a moment of joy under the veil of gentle rain.
Floral Butterflies
Dreamlike and tactile, this piece layers plaster, lace, and translucent paint to create weightless, transformative butterflies that shimmer against a pale background. Each insect is embedded with LEGO blossoms and delicate textiles, turning childhood relics into symbols of quiet metamorphosis. With controlled pastel drips and soft smudges, the piece becomes a meditation on fragility, transformation, and joy found in the unexpected.
Floral Reverie in Blue
A diptych that marries the handmade with the modular, this work juxtaposes soft, hand-molded petals with geometric LEGO blossoms. The contrast of textures—fluid fabric against the snap-fit logic of toys—speaks to the evolution of creativity itself, from childhood play to mature introspection. The work invites close inspection, blurring the boundaries between artificial and organic, whimsy and contemplation.
