Houseplants(2022)

Houseplants is an exploration of motherhood. The work is a collaboration with my daughter. We paint together in my studio, pure creativity and experimentation. The panels are wild and free, just like her. At night, when she and her brothers are asleep, I carefully cut out images of houseplants while I watch them on the monitor. I match these curated plants to a companion panel and offset them with my own intentional mark making, an act of balancing spontaneity with the right amount of structure and care. The pieces become a call and response. They are about motherhood and childhood, holding tight and letting go, navigating when to lead and when to follow, and a point in time artifact capturing these early years.