STATEMENT
My work revolves around the life cycle of plants, from seed and pod to bloom and decay. These transitions serve as metaphors for human existence, echoing our impermanence and fragility.
I am particularly fascinated by the dramatic shape-shifting plants undergo. I consider myself a privileged spectator to living organisms completing entire visible lifetimes. The botanical metamorphosis allows my imagination to hitch itself to myriad organic forms. By translating organic shapes, I construct fictional actors within fantastical environmental narratives. While biology has rules, the scope of aesthetic creation is limitless.
—Carol Paquet