Flora Ficciones-Aurora Helianthus Artwork

Patterns in plants slightly fantastic, appearing vividly real inspired by Californian gardens and our changing planet that I discover, record and experience on my many walks and travels in the wilderness and other natural areas. Identifying the essential nature of any object - animal, mineral or vegetable - allows one to supersede the possessiveness of dualistic mind. Originally this taxonomic tool was universally in Latin twice named, the first half genus and the second half more particular. But in the artist’s world, the boundaries of names, nature and other dimensions are challenged and embellished. Each name is further adornment for a piece of the beautiful, a primordial vehicle for transcendence. The entire presentation of name and image is meant to uplift and even confound, but most of all to liberate and enjoy. It is invitation to gently let go, in superficial and profound terms to detach from definitions for just a moment. This gap or relief affords us freedom, a chance to find respite from the gnawing ambition to always secure one’s world.