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Oil on linen
The first conception of this series started at the beginning of Covid Lockdowns. Blush pinks and bruised purples bloom against a darkened ground, suggesting abundance tipped into excess. The saturated palette evokes overstimulation and emotional noise, while the encircling petals tighten around the clownfish forms. This painting reflects a society once vibrant and plural, now crowded inward—where closeness becomes congestion and vitality begins to fracture. As the series progresses the floral begin to calcify reflecting the health of our social structures.
Calcified Blooms Series
The clownfish represents the individual self—small, alert, and vividly distinct—moving through a world far larger and more complex than itself. The flower, standing in for the anemone, becomes a metaphor for society in a state of calcification: once living and flexible, now slowly hardening under pressure. Its petals tighten and ossify, echoing the modern social climate shaped by anxiety, isolation, over-stimulation, and emotional fatigue. What was meant to protect begins to constrain. The clownfish survives not by force or rebellion, but by adaptation—learning how to exist within a system that is simultaneously nurturing and corrosive. This relationship mirrors the psychological negotiation many experience today: maintaining identity and sensitivity while navigating a society increasingly rigid, reactive, and inward-collapsing.
Oil on linen
The first conception of this series started at the beginning of Covid Lockdowns. Blush pinks and bruised purples bloom against a darkened ground, suggesting abundance tipped into excess. The saturated palette evokes overstimulation and emotional noise, while the encircling petals tighten around the clownfish forms. This painting reflects a society once vibrant and plural, now crowded inward—where closeness becomes congestion and vitality begins to fracture. As the series progresses the floral begin to calcify reflecting the health of our social structures.
Calcified Blooms Series
The clownfish represents the individual self—small, alert, and vividly distinct—moving through a world far larger and more complex than itself. The flower, standing in for the anemone, becomes a metaphor for society in a state of calcification: once living and flexible, now slowly hardening under pressure. Its petals tighten and ossify, echoing the modern social climate shaped by anxiety, isolation, over-stimulation, and emotional fatigue. What was meant to protect begins to constrain. The clownfish survives not by force or rebellion, but by adaptation—learning how to exist within a system that is simultaneously nurturing and corrosive. This relationship mirrors the psychological negotiation many experience today: maintaining identity and sensitivity while navigating a society increasingly rigid, reactive, and inward-collapsing.