The Bouquet Paintings emerge from years of exploring and abstracting the forms of plants, flowers, and vessels in our sculptural work. In this series of paintings on linen, we play with the graphic space of the picture plane, in which bulbous floral forms push at the edges of the rectangular frame, and negative and positive space are equally weighted in the construction of the composition. Oftentimes these paintings embrace both the bloom and the droop of life, celebrating the exuberance of being alive as well as the uniquities evidenced by life lived.