STATEMENT

Beauty is often presented as something soft, consumable, and reassuring. These paintings resist that expectation.

Through floral still lifes, the work examines the psychological tension between attraction and discomfort, intimacy and exposure, beauty and deterioration. Flowers — traditionally associated with romance, sentimentality, and decoration — are isolated, compressed, darkened, and stripped down to their most vulnerable forms.

Close cropping and shadow-heavy compositions create a sense of proximity that borders on intrusion. The viewer is denied emotional distance. Bruised petals, collapsing stems, and dissolving edges become evidence of fragility, impermanence, and the quieter discomforts embedded within human experience.

Decay is not treated as spectacle, but as revelation. The work is less concerned with death than with instability — the moment something beautiful begins to unravel while still attempting to remain intact.

By reducing each composition to its essential elements of light, form, texture, and shadow, the paintings aim to create an atmosphere that feels simultaneously seductive and uneasy. The familiar becomes unfamiliar. Beauty becomes psychologically exposed.

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