Ceramic wall sculpture from the Crying Flowers series.
A human face is embedded within the form of an open flower, dissolving the boundary between portrait and botanical structure. Rather than representing nature literally, the flower becomes an autonomous sculptural form in which organic and human elements merge into a single image.
The Crying Flowers series brings together ceramic sculptures in which botanical, anatomical, biological, and geological forms gradually dissolve into one another. Natural structures serve as a point of departure for creating independent abstract sculptural forms.
The sculpture is entirely hand-built in clay. The petals are finished with a deep black glaze, while the central face is decorated with overglaze enamels and refined using the traditional sgraffito technique, in which fine lines are incised into the clay before firing.