“The Love I Carry and Mindful I Was Fair speak to both decay and rebirth. While the work preserves flowers that have died, the preservation of the flowers in wax and placed to bursting in the purses that hold them, echo a gothic femininity that cannot be diminished. Both works contain bouquets from specific moments (a gift from a first love and from being maid of honour at a wedding). They hold memory and moments of a life that will be carried around even as time may pass. Symbolically and quite literally through the placement within the purses, offering them the chance to live out life through renewal of meaning and purpose.”

“Maiden Head (May Queen) was stitched as a self-portrait of the artist in the May of 2021. The flowers chosen, acting as the head are symbolic to the emotional state present at the time, with meanings of narcissism, innocence, love, naivete, and infatuation, all while surrounded by the vibrance of the embroidered roses and bush. Standing in contrast with one another, while also offering a chance to live again amongst the landscape of heart and mind, the living and faux come together to surround the body and beautify the rebirth that comes from recognizing oneself in the past and actively seeking to change.”