In Pallid Bloom explores fragility, stillness, and the quiet tension between life and absence. The series is defined by the use of milk white resin, a material choice that softens and obscures the florals it encases, allowing them to exist in a muted, almost suspended state.
Unlike preservation that seeks clarity or vibrancy, this body of work embraces restraint. The milky opacity blurs detail, echoing the way memory fades or shifts over time. Flowers are present but partially withheld, their forms suggested rather than fully revealed. This intentional obscuring reflects moments of emotional numbness, grief, and the spaces where words or images fail to fully articulate loss.
The palette evokes clinical environments and ceremonial quiet, referencing both care and departure. Within this pale field, each stem and petal becomes an exercise in subtlety, asking the viewer to look slowly and closely. What remains visible carries weight not through color, but through form, shadow, and negative space.
In Pallid Bloom considers preservation not as an act of fixing something in time, but as a meditation on impermanence. The series holds flowers in a state between presence and disappearance, mirroring the experience of remembering someone not as they once were, but as they linger, softly, in the mind.

preserved flora

In Pallid Bloom no.1

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In Pallid Bloom no.2