the character in my faces. When I stopped making noses smaller and lips bigger, I could finally see a person I recognized.

sM | What sentiment do the depictions of flower arrangements evoke the most in your work?

PS ── Whenever I'm working on a piece where the subject is flowers, I try to remind myself that flowers are alive. They aren't just beautiful stationary objects, they change and move and breathe. It's easy for flowers to come off as stiff, and appear sort of perfect in an unnatural way. This is why I challenge myself to give plants a presence, with an energy and tone of their own. It almost gives them a surreal and fluid look, perpetually swaying in a breeze or tilting to follow a sunbeam. I feel placing flowers as the sole focus of a piece can still be exciting.