This body of work is a vibrant homage to identity, metamorphosis, and cultural hybridity. Created for Pride 2025, the collection celebrates queer joy through richly layered materiality—pairing painterly techniques with found and fabricated objects like lace, LEGO florals, and textiles. Each piece inhabits the liminal space between nature and artifice, ornament and memory, inviting viewers into an immersive world where resilience blooms in full color.
Eden
This diptych evokes the lush mysticism of a garden in bloom beneath soft rainfall. A vertical cascade of lavender and periwinkle washes sets the stage for an ecstatic arrangement of flowers, fruits, and engineered flora. Glossed fruits, waxed buds, and pale blossoms emerge as if from a dream—half myth, half memory. "Eden" is both a celebration of natural growth and an allegory for queer flourishing, capturing a moment of joy under the veil of gentle rain.
Against the streaming rain backdrop, each LEGO bloom and painted petal pulses with life, suggesting both abundance and renewal.
Floral Butterflies
Dreamlike and tactile, this piece layers plaster, lace, and translucent paint to create weightless, transformative butterflies that shimmer against a pale background.
With controlled pastel drips and soft smudges, the piece becomes a meditation on fragility, transformation, and joy found in the unexpected.
Each butterfly is crafted from LEGO petals and delicate textiles, turning childhood relics into symbols of quiet metamorphosis.
By combining lace, plaster, and LEGO blooms, I hoped to evoke the delicate yet transformative power of nature while also highlighting the joy found in unexpected creative pairings.
Floral Reverie in Blue
A #commissioned diptych that marries the handmade with the modular, this work juxtaposes soft, hand-molded petals with geometric #LEGO blossoms. The work invites close inspection, blurring the boundaries between artificial and organic, whimsy and contemplation.
Spring Awakening
A joyful eruption of color and texture, Spring Awakening celebrates the season’s bold return with sculpted petals, glossy LEGO blooms, and hand-painted flourishes. This piece captures the moment winter gives way to wild color—where everything starts to bloom, boldly and unapologetically.
Layers of magenta, yellow, and lilac unfurl in exuberant motion, evoking the messy beauty of growth and the thrill of new beginnings.
Seasons of Love
an homage to #KeithHaring
This multimedia relief pays tribute to Keith Haring’s iconic “LOVE” motif, reimagining it within a lush, floral tableau that spans the cycle of the four seasons. At the center, the sculptural “LOVE” form emerges in painterly swirls of purple, cobalt, and yellow—echoing Haring’s graphic immediacy while softening it into a more intimate, textured register.
Surrounding the text, a cascade of LEGO florals, hand-shaped petals, resin-cast foliage, and painted elements represent spring’s pink blossoms, summer’s bold sunbursts, autumn’s crisp blue leaves, and winter’s white blooms. The layered floral elements playfully blur natural growth and synthetic invention, evoking how love—like nature—is ever-changing yet eternal.
By blending Haring’s bold message of queer love with symbols of renewal and transformation, Seasons of Love becomes a celebration of joy through time, embracing the cyclical nature of beauty, connection, and creative endurance. It is both homage and declaration—a reminder that love, in all its seasons, deserves to flourish.
the making of: the pride collection 2025 with floral legos
