Floral Combines

In 2025, I imagined rogue botany; flowers assembled into impossible hybrids, inspired by rogue taxidermy. Early attempts in sculpture and illustration felt unresolved, yet the idea persisted, opening questions of place, preservation, consumerism, and the slow passage of time.

Photography became my research tool. Across cities, countries, and seasons, I documented living, dying, and decaying flora. Drawn to overlooked flowers found on pavements, riverbanks, gardens, and parks, I began collecting and drying them without a clear purpose. What started as curiosity became an archive of thousands of specimens; fragments of time gathered from the urban landscape.

A shift from abstraction to observation led me toward representation. Through etching, I combined drawn botanical forms with dried petals, foliage, and flowers, creating works I call Floral Combines. These pieces merged memory, place, and material presence, uniting collected artefacts with printmaking. Stained by earthy sepia tones and marked by deliberate imperfections, they evoked distant summers, fading landscapes, and the quiet melancholy of seasonal change.

The series transformed collecting into making, allowing preserved flowers to re-emerge as images. In doing so, the work became a meditation on ephemerality, remembrance, and the enduring traces left behind by nature in the city.