Fragile Devotions

The peonies move inward. They are quieter works, more intimate and fully painted, built through layers of gesture, atmosphere, and restraint. The flowers appear suspended between emergence and disappearance, existing less as botanical subjects and more as emotional states. The new sunflower works shift in another direction entirely: louder, more immediate, almost confrontational in their optimism. Constructed through a combination of hand-pulled silkscreen and painting, they borrow the visual language of pop iconography while resisting its surface simplicity. Repetition, overspray, drips, and imperfect registration become part of the image itself, allowing the mechanical and the human to collide within the same surface.