The painting is made with gouache on Rives BFK paper. It comes framed in a gallery frame 18 x 24”. It is protected by luan, not glass. Which makes it lighter to hang. The work is from the series Abundance that was shown at 621 Gallery.

The work from the Abundance series explores these themes; Dealing with hidden illness’, several overlapping chronic immune diseases, has led to the series Coaxing Beauty Out of Pain. The bouquets require an introspection of what the interior of the body looks like, the landscape of pain, which fluctuates daily. While pain can be difficult the bouquets create a form of abstract beauty that creates the act of healing. This notion is supported by the Japanese belief of Wabi Sabi that “Beauty can be coaxed out of Ugliness”