About this Artwork

“I made “”Flowers and Metal”” around a feeling that still feels a little strange to me: a machine resting inside a meadow, not as an intruder, but as something quietly learning how to belong.

A chrome android lies among wildflowers. Its body catches the colors around it – petals, grass, sky, light – and reflects them back in fragments. The metal is cold, but the scene is not. There is something almost tender in that contrast.

For me, this work is not about technology defeating nature, or nature resisting technology. That would be too simple. I was more interested in the pause between them. The moment before we decide whether something is alien or alive.

The android does not dominate the landscape. It almost disappears into it through reflection. Its polished surface becomes a strange mirror for the living world around it. In that stillness, the machine feels vulnerable, maybe even curious, as if beauty is something it has only just discovered.

The flowers carry joy, renewal, and the stubborn softness of life. The metal carries invention, transformation, and the unknown future. Together, they create a kind of hope I still believe in: that progress does not have to lose tenderness.

“”Flowers and Metal”” imagines a future where intelligence is not separated from wonder. Where softness still matters. Where even something built from chrome can be touched by color, light, and the quiet language of a meadow.

Exhibition history:
Exhibited IRL at the Self-Reflection Art Exhibit at the Oculus, NYC, presented by HUG, Canvas 3.0 Gallery, World Trade Center, September 2, 2024.”