Part of the Scaffolding series:

This collection focuses on the concept of scaffolding, both in the structural and the developmental sense.  Scaffolding is supportive but not determinate.  It doesn’t define, rather it provides a framework which offers many perspectives. I am interested in what holds us up: as an individual, as a community, and in our surroundings.

In biology an inflorescence is a cluster of flowers that grows off of one single stem. I am fascinated by this. Individual buds, all living together, supported by a main stem (a peduncle, which is another incredible word). In this painting, I wanted to paint the interaction between each of the baby buds; the lifecycle of the flower.

The movement

The blossoming

All the days

And the return to the earth