My work uses pattern and repetition to break down and complicate depictions of time. I use flowers as my subject matter because their ephemerality alludes to the passage of time and our mortality. They bud, bloom, wilt, and then others sprout up in their place. This cycle of life, growth, resilience, and death is all-encompassing. It is universally understood, and yet also individual and intimate. My depictions of flowers upend the expected pace of time and question what happens when the anticipated cycle is disrupted, paused, or completely scrambled.

In my mixed-media paintings, I use stenciling techniques to layer silhouetted botanical patterns over dense backgrounds of floral imagery that have been obsessively duplicated and repeated in visual stutters. Films of translucent paint selectively conceal and reveal conglomerations of plant life, creating windows or portals that symbolize entry points into a psychological realm. In my watercolor drawings, I distill floral patterns into lacy compositions that shift between illustrative contour tracings and monochromatic magic-eye images.

My work borrows imagery from 17th-century Dutch still-lifes. These paintings famously depict a variety of plants that were carefully cultivated and produced, often including flowers of rare coloration or multiple species that would bloom in different seasons, presenting a fantastical view of our natural world. However, even within this fantasy, the Dutch paintings include wilting blooms, bugs consuming leaves, and vases positioned on crumbling plinths to symbolize that all things are fleeting. My work exaggerates and remixes elements from these paintings to a fanatic degree. Petals droop into a cascading waterfall of duplicate images of the same flower as a bumblebee buzzes between five iterations of a reappearing lily. These vibrating gardens, which can only reside within our psyche, manipulate and abolish our linear understanding of time. Through intense attention to detail, saturated colors, and a hyper level of repetition, my work questions how time and perception works. Does our existence operate at the same speed as everything else around us? How does time move between waking life and dream life? And what can we learn from meditating on these intricacies of time?