Fine Arts

The inspiration of my pieces stems from an ongoing interest in my grandfather’s garden. I began exploring the form of the bitter melon using green Japanese silk, creating soft plant-like vessels, sewing and puckering the fabric to replicate the lumpy texture.

I continued using the technique of sewing and puckering fabric, but attempted using different colours such as red and cream, and immediately the pods possessed a more internal quality, transforming from a botanically inspired growth into a biological growth.

I coated the fabric in resin, which achieved a beautifully grotesque and tactile surface. Some pieces possess a transparent quality, looking like skin tissue or dried up rose petals. Due to the resin some pieces have a luminosity, reflecting light in some areas, whilst other areas remain matte. Overall the forms are ambiguous and are a textural response to the relationship between the biology of plants and humans.