they hit me with a truck

These three pieces are part of a series of flowers.  For now, they are untitled, but they have the working titles of “silver flower,” “red flower” and “rainbow.” The two with open petals measure approximately three feet across, witht the vines running close to 6 feet in lenth. The silver flower is about 5 feet long with the vines straightened, and a little over a foot wide and deep.

Each of these pieces examines the exaggeration of “flower” qualities through proportion and color.  “Rainbow” is consructed of brightly colored paper over wire, with expanding foam erupting from the center.  The paper, being wrapped in stripes of color, emphasizes the artificiality of the image, coupled with the long grasping vines.  Placed in a natural setting, the flower becomes even more hyperbolic in its “plant” qualities.  “Red Flower” uses red and blue yarn, a traditionally female material of construction, to create a flower that borders on creature.  The petals are red, the color of blood and hunger, and they resemble an open mouth that confronts the viewer at eye level from a tree. Twisting around the tree branches and reaching out, the vines enhance the flower’s image as a living, grasping creature.