My work revolves around the botanical world and the life cycle of plants, from seed, to pod, to bloom, to decay. For me, this serves as a metaphor for life, alluding to its impermanence and inherent fragility. The only certainties we know.
I am particularly fascinated by the shape-shifting plants undergo. The transformation that occurs in a relatively short period of time. We are privileged to bear witness to living organisms completing an entire life cycle. My work harnesses this botanical shape-shifting, allowing my imagination to hitch itself to their forms. This process enables me to create fictional actors within a fantastical, environmental narrative of my own design. Ultimately, the scope of this creation is limited only by my imagination.
—Carol Paquet