Angel & Butterfly

About this artwork

What do Peppers Know About Dying, is a series of diptychs that uses portraits of dying plants as a metaphor for finding beauty beyond the classic idea of physical appearance. The images were photographed in two locations, the coastline of Port Angeles, WA (2022) and on my concrete walkway in Scottsdale, AZ (2024). I was drawn to the form, shape, and color of all the natural objects and realized the images from the opposing environments danced together. As the process came together, another meaning behind the images slowly emerged as a last breath, they reflected where I am in the process of aging, a portrait of the loss of youth, strength, energy but not losing the inner beauty of true self. This truly excited me and the diptychs on a natural substrate was important in keeping with natural elements, coupled with the gesso print process as it reflects my youth painting with oils.