Squaring the Flower series are bright, bold silkscreen prints inspired by the ancient Greek idea of “squaring the circle,” as an expression of balance and beauty. Formal qualities of color interaction and a sense of geometrical playfulness. These prints can exist independently or hang together to make a wall-length frieze, encompassing a spirit of experimentation and expanded logic. Transparent and opaque color blocks shield and reveal delicate, illustrative line drawings of flowers, creating contrasts of fragile and strong, intense and subdued. Transforming the still life form of a flower in a vase, into dynamic, modern imagery is created by balancing between decorative Victorian art, as characterized by ornate shapes and patterns, and modernism, with its bold forms and bright colors. The flower gets stripped away, covered up and over-printed, yet it always finds a way back in, like a melodious refrain or a cherry blossom in springtime. Shifting 19th century two-point perspective into a single-point, aerial perspective by flattening the image and seeing it from above, is the genesis for the “Squaring the Flower” which has become in-depth exploration of color on a large scale."