Description

Full Collection

We love flowers. From décor, to scents, to gifts, flowers have been a symbol of beauty and nature for centuries. Our preconceptions of flowers are so strong that we often ignore the original intent of these structures, reproduction. Human reproduction on the contrary is very much the opposite, being believed to be disgusting, dirty, and immoral. This generates a lack of understanding and acknowledgement to reproductive issues despite its necessity to our everyday lives. How can two natural reproductive processes have such differing social stigmas attached to them? The Bouquet of Life collection seeks to disassemble these stigmas, presenting various reproductive topics under the dress of flora and fantasy. Similar to flowers which are natural tools of reproduction, these art pieces showcase the symbolic beauty in birth, sex, and the cycle of human reproduction.

The art contains two stylized characters with abstract representations of hair. Flowers burst from the scene and all the colors converge to a newborn. Unlike the parents, the newborn has white hair in a bed of white flowers known as baby's breath. This piece is representative of sexual reproduction and how two bodies mix and come together to create a new being. Aspects of both characters seem to turn into paints that will color the baby, like an artist painting onto a blank canvas. However, the baby is still colorless, representing the immature and underdeveloped nature of newborns. This piece was done digitally as a digital painting piece and printed out on paper.