TROUBLE WATERS…

Submerged and luminous, this work unfolds like a baroque vision caught beneath water. Flowers drift, collide, and re-form within a dark, shifting depth where time feels slowed and unstable. Colour blooms intensely against the blue-black ground, as if light itself is struggling to rise. If surface tension breaks….

The scene suggests a moment after disturbance: matter displaced but not destroyed. Petals float like fragments of memory, layered and refracted, neither sinking nor fully surfacing. Nothing here is still. Beauty becomes excessive, almost defiant, held in suspension rather than offered for display.

Exhibited at Decagon Gallery, New York, after selection through the open call Botanicals of the World, the work draws on baroque abundance and contemporary unease, holding natural forms in a state of troubled, breathless persistence.