“All my pictures are confused. And now I’m going to take me to you.”

Talking Heads

Welcome to Paintings by Petals, an ongoing self-exploration of my subconscious rendered through lines and color painted onto mostly digital canvases, resulting in depictions of fantastical abstract creatures, objects, and settings, all composed of various combinations of human-like biology, inorganic matter, and elements of the natural world. These visual artifacts of the latent psyche, whose company I find both exhilarating and comforting, exist in an energetic state of playful re-generation. Released from the womb of the mind, the images seem to want to form clusters, find accomplices, and forge alliances as they emerge from the tip of the pen. All of it adds up to the truthful expression of my imagination, a vulnerable but potentially sublime endeavor.

Petals, 2024