BEAUTIFUL YET THREATENING

I have been interested in flowers for a long time; their structure, size, arrangement and variety. Their size and shape when arranged together or when looked at through a microscope attracts us to them as objects of natural beauty though their appearence is environmentally and economically determined and cultivated to satisfy fashion and desire. I have discovered that a flower is not just an object of great beauty but also of death. A flower, in which mortality and sexual signals are so pronounced, can be viewed as similar to the experience of the human condition. Conflicting responses to my flower-like objects represent the confusion we also experience in life, of mortality, of sex and the link between beauty and death.

VOGA Group Exhibition: 2006, 'Beyond the Vale' Newport Museum and Art Gallery. Llanover Hall Arts Centre, Cardiff. 2007 VOGA Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, St David's Hall, Cardiff. The Gate, Cardiff. 2008, 'Internationalism' St Donats Arts Centre. The Eisteddfod, Cardiff. 'Impressions' Art Central, Barry. 'Visual Feast' Cowbridge.

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Melinae Forse