For the past two years, I have been making pictures of flowers. It is my intent to complicate the representational qualities of flowers in this work by juxtaposing them against and combining them with the more abstract properties of picture making. This causes the subject matter of flowers to become somewhat elusive in relation to one's perception when viewing the work. This complication of our perception of the subject matter is a result of three concepts dealing with representation--reality, illusion, and abstraction. These concepts and the way they relate and interact with each other cause different levels of perception to exist simultaneously within this body of work. There are also three distinct physical groups of work in this show; drawings, paintings, and ceramics. Each of these groups relates to the concepts of reality, illusion, and abstraction differently and causes even further complications of the images of flowers.
With the addition of illusion to this work there is a whole new set of relationships that complicate our perception of the subject matter by adding more levels of representation. One sees in the drawings that illusion shows us not pictures of flowers but pictures of pictures of flowers. Each different picture creates a different perspective from which one can see the overall image of flowers. The images of flowers that one sees in the paintings is obstructed by different levels of illusion. The vases when seen illusionistically can become pictures of flowers.
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