Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 01
Flower Press, Volume 01, No. 01
A single pressed flower, its purple petals dried into soft, papery translucence, sits at the center of this piece like a specimen preserved between the pages of an old book. Around it, smaller pressed blossoms in violet and pale pink frame the corners, while faded newspaper text bleeds through the background, only partially legible beneath layers of cream and grey. A faint architectural illustration peeks through in the upper left, adding another layer of found, vintage material beneath the botanicals. The overall effect is quiet and weathered, like discovering a forgotten keepsake tucked into a journal.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 02
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 02A scattering of pressed flowers spills across this piece in a looser, more abundant arrangement than its predecessor — deep magenta, mint green, and pale ivory blossoms drift over layered handwritten script and antique sheet music. Faint butterfly silhouettes, rendered in dusty rose, weave between the real, dried specimens, while fragments of newspaper text remain just visible beneath the botanical layers. Where the first piece in the volume centers on a single specimen, this one embraces abundance, scattering its pressed flowers like petals caught mid-fall. The combination of handwriting, music notation, and dried botanicals gives it the feel of a keepsake page assembled from several found sources at once.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 03
Flower Press - Volume 01, No.03A boldly outlined, hand-drawn butterfly takes center stage here, its wings colored in warm coral, gold, and rose against pale lavender petals arranged in a symmetrical, almost mandala-like frame. The butterfly itself dates back to 2004, originally drawn by hand and later colored digitally, and depicts a species native to Texas. Surrounding it, pressed purple flowers repeat in mirrored corners, while faint sheet music, generated through AI, fills the negative space with a soft, antique texture. The mix of eras and methods, hand-drawn linework, pressed botanicals, and AI-generated backdrop, gives the piece a layered sense of history, like several different timelines of the artist's work meeting on one page.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 04
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 04Two framed photographs sit at the heart of this piece: a tiered fountain garden and a vivid, ruffled tulip, both rendered as AI-generated images in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, one of the artist's longtime influences. The Bosch-inspired touch shows in the strange, almost otherworldly intensity of the tulip's petals and the dreamlike density of the fountain scene. Surrounding the framed images, pressed flowers in deep maroon, lavender, and seafoam radiate outward in a near-symmetrical pattern, while faint sketched florals in burnt orange line work add another decorative layer. Aged newsprint and sheet music fill the background, tying the piece back to the rest of the collection's vintage, paper-built foundation.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 05
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 05This piece leans more architectural than its companions, built around a hand-drawn ornate frame and decorative star motifs layered over original sketched illustration. Faint AI-generated handwritten script and printed text weave through the composition, standing in for the artist's own handwriting, while pressed purple flowers and outlined rose sketches in dusty rose add softer, organic counterpoints to the structured linework. Star shapes scattered across the lower half give the piece a slightly whimsical, almost celestial undertone. As with the rest of the volume, antique sheet music and faded newsprint anchor everything in the collection's signature aged, paper-built aesthetic.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 06
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 06Two AI-generated photographs anchor this piece: a small, finely detailed songbird perched on weathered wood, and a soft, blush-toned flower with delicate berries beneath it. A pair of hand-drawn dragonflies and an original illustrated banner sit at the top, both created by the artist, while faintly visible feng shui coins are worked into the background to resemble aged paper stains rather than obvious decoration. Pressed purple and rose-toned flowers frame the photographs on either side, and faded sheet music and newsprint fill out the remaining background, continuing the volume's layered, vintage-keepsake feel. The mix of crisp AI photography against soft, hand-illustrated and pressed elements gives the piece a quiet tension between precision and texture.
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 07
Flower Press - Volume 01, No. 07A dignified, slightly mischievous crow wearing a tall pointed hat dominates this piece, rendered in the strange, surreal style of Hieronymus Bosch, complete with a distant fantastical landscape behind it. Beside it, an AI-generated blue-and-cream butterfly adds a second focal point, its wings rendered with the same painterly intensity. Aside from the pressed flowers framing the corners, deep violet, mint, and dusty rose blossoms scattered around the edges, nearly every element here is AI-generated, including the faded sheet music backdrop. It's a piece that leans further into the Bosch influence than any other in the volume, trading the collection's usual quiet botanicals for something a little stranger and more theatrical.