the state of bloom and shadow
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Bud, bloom, poppy sprouting. Wildflower lilac. Roots bursting the earth. The freshness of the flowers – born perfume of violent beauty corrupting my senses. The moment is a living seed. I am on a quest, which may be also yours. We are all flowers blossoming. Life-long search of some memory of the memory of the long-lost memory. My intent is the brightest flower’s opulent blossom, its splendor forever etched on the wall plaster. Deep inside, the flowers always come back, perhaps to capture their own secret of quiet intensity and visual vastness. If not as the rose, they come back as the blood of nature, extravagant, mysterious and necessary. Once sprung, one flower becomes the silence of the other, everything looks at everything, every piece experiences the other, their world utterly reciprocal. The present contemplating the present. Everything could be called anything, because anything could be changed into the same resonating muteness. Since my body is the only way I experience the transparency of all things, every time it feels wilted, another summer opens up. I live from an obsessed place of invented truth, an inner state of bloom and shadow. The works created for this series were shown as a solo show at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery in San Francisco in 2012. They are all mixed media.
born perfume 80 x 36"
wildflower lilac 36 x 36"
quest 80 x 36"
bittersweet 36 x 36"
flowers blossoming 20 x 20"
the moment is a living seed 65 x 48"
blossom 48 x 48"
dejavu 36 x 36"
blood of nature 48 x 60"
invented truth 35 x 42"
stillness 36 x 36"
the transparency of all things 48 x 65"
the state of bloom and shadow 48 x 65"
buttercup 60 x 25"
spring 5 x 10"
clusters 5 x 10"
pansy poppy peony 5 x 15"
root 60 x 12"
harvest 60 x 12"
tearose 48 x 5"
shoot 48 x 5"
musk 48 x 5"
flora 48 x 5"
tulip 48 x 8"
mayflower 48 x 8"
twig 48 x 5"
floret 48 x 5"
wallflower 48 x 5"
sprout 48 x 5"
waterlily 48 x 5"
iris 48 x 5"
daisy 48 x 8"