2009 | Acrylic and paper mache on canvas | 30 × 40 inches

Floating Poppies was the first large-scale painting to emerge fully from my own imagination, marking a moment when an internal vision began to take physical form. Through layered texture and sculptural elements, the work transforms the familiar lily into something dreamlike, suspended between water and ether.

The cascading stems and rising blooms explore movement, growth, and the delicate boundary between the seen and unseen, themes that would continue to unfold throughout my later work.

2012 | Acrylic on canvas | 15 × 30 inches

Floating Lotus emerged from a process of observation and reconstruction, taking a single living form apart across its many stages before bringing it back together as a complete symbolic landscape. The lotus is presented through three realms: bloom reaching toward the sky, leaf resting at the water’s surface, and roots revealed beneath the earth.

With a subtle mandala behind the flower, the work marks an early exploration of sacred geometry and the symbolic patterns that would become increasingly central throughout my practice.