My work has always been about the natural world and how we humans inhabit it, for better or worse. Some works have been abstracted landscapes, painted and drawn on vintage maritime maps, or digital prints of neon TV static collaged with prints of ink drawn forests, turned into paintings with layers of acrylic. More recently, I have returned to an earlier subject of mine: In the 1990s, with the magnolia tree in my front yard as my muse, I painted flowers. Now, while I still create landscapes, I’ve begun exploring the botanical world again. Flower paintings come with a deep history; flowers themselves are famously symbolic. They convey beauty, joy, vibrant life, the comfort of home interiors, spiritual transcendence, and also the ultimate briefness of life, beauty, and joy. They come to celebrations as well as memorials and leave-takings, signs of connection and loss.