"gardens of the mind"

For the last decade, all my work has found inspiration in the theme of the garden as the focus of a multifaceted approach to many meaningful aspects of human life: representation of reality, aspirations, memory. In my project I focus on the interaction between plants as complex organisms and the human mind, on how their presence and observation shapes and mirrors our perception of the world and ourselves. I try to understand how flowers are reflected in our imagination and projected back as synthetic artistic representation. Their shapes, patterns, colours, textures are closely related to their own circadian rhythm, movement, life-cycle but they may be also interpreted as messages written in an encrypted language and influencing our visual preferences in art or design. Flowers, plants contain the whole mystery of life cycles, of beauty and decay, light and darkness. they speak to us about interconnectedness and separation, boundaries and infinite spaces, birth and return to silence. I tried to speak about this ideas in the portraits and the floral compositions I have created. It is an ongoing project which has several threads - different treatments of the world of flowers, leaves, plants.