Synthetic Bloom

Impressionistic softness combined with "post-photographic" structure.
How something can feel natural and organic at first glance, but reveal itself to be entirely constructed the closer you look, that's really the core of this work.

From far away, these pieces might read as impressionistic, just wildflowers, warm light, soft fields. But up close, you realize the petals aren't really petals. They're folds. Seams. The texture of something synthetic, like a wrinkled jacket or fabric from a certain era.

I was heavily influenced by late '90s and early 2000s street fashion, fabric from Steep Tech, all those paneled, utility-based jackets. Over time, those visuals became memory for me, and in these outputs, they kind of came back. Not as literal references, but as texture that feels worn. The flowers are "engineered" using that visual vocabulary.

I wouldn't call this work escapist, though. It's not about running away into nature, it's about trying to bring these two worlds together in a unique way. The opposing ideology of mixing two things that feel opposite and building something new out that. The world I grew up in, and the one I'm drawn to now.

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