Toxic Flowers

Toxic Flowers is a series of delicate, highly saturated, time-based paintings in continuous stages of bloom and decay.

Reflecting and reacting to the increased anxieties in a post 9/11 world, each one evolves out of 1950’s source footage of destruction and disaster pushed to the point of abstraction. Where terror levels are reported in color codes on a daily basis, the flowers loop continuously - as ephemeral as fear, as elusive as beauty, each suddenly explodes then dissipates, disappears, like a mirage, like the dust after an explosion, leaving us to wonder in its absence when it will next present.

Together on a wall, embedded in a bank of monitors, they inform one another, becoming the new color code of fear, using the Technicolor reality of when the push to Empire began.