Floralegia
2023These pieces are floral spells gathered not from soil, but from memory’s refracted garden. Suspended in the liminal architecture of vintage frames, each Florilegia specimen is captured in light, rendered in holographic depth, and etched by hand. Each engraving carries the mark of the emotional hand within the technological artifact.
The series takes its name from the ancient practice of the florilegium—a gathering of flowers, both literal and poetic, composed to preserve meaning in times of change. Just as 19th-century flower books assembled blossoms and sentiments to teach and console, these works constellate affective knowledge across time: the purity of the lily, the sorrow of the hyacinth, the unfolding promise of the rose.
Florilegia is both elegy and invocation. These are offerings for the unseen and the yet-to-be-seen—memorials to friends lost, remembered, and imagined into the future. The holograms do not merely display, they shimmer, recede, and return, activating a devotional gaze. They are mirrors of connection disguised as flora, rituals of care encoded in diffraction.
In this series, the flower becomes a vessel of mythic continuity. Each is a psychic emissary, emerging through the diffraction of presence and absence, permanence and ephemerality. To look into them is to gather—not just flowers, but feelings; not just sentiments, but spirits.
: for Friends Lost
Unique hologram, vintage glazing4 x 5 1/2 in
Lily – A flower of purity and passing, the lily has long been associated with the threshold between life and death. It speaks in the language of the sacred—of innocence preserved, of silence honored, and of spirits released gently into the beyond.
: for Friends Remembered
Unique hologram, vintage mirror in original frame, gilding12 x 9 in
Hyacinth – Born from grief and myth, the hyacinth is the bloom of remembrance. It carries the weight of sorrow softened by beauty, offering fragrance in exchange for loss, and memory in exchange for time. In this piece, the hologram cracked during production—a delicate fracture across its spectral surface. I chose to preserve it as a testament to the ruptures and repairs that define our deepest friendships: imperfect, weathered, and still luminous.
: for Friends Yet to Come, 2023
Unique hologram, vintage glazing5 x 8 in
Rose – The rose is a cipher for love in all its unfolding forms—tender, fierce, and yet to be realized. As an emblem of desire and potential, it spirals ever outward, holding the mystery of the not-yet-known within each petal.