When I started the project in the fall of 2025, I had just returned from my home country and was experiencing a range of emotions from fulfilment to grief; the overall experience was bittersweet. During that time, leaves had already begun falling in Montreal, and flowers were slowly dying. It felt like the outside environment reflected the conflicting feelings inside me. In this way, the dying vegetation became an entry point of inspiration for the bronze component of the project.
Further into the casting process, the process itself became a source of inspiration, and I felt that my emotions around it were also bittersweet: from being excited to being frustrated and exhausted by it. That is where the idea of the video began to take shape. It was a meditation on the phenomenon of pain and pleasure intertwining to the point where you cannot distinguish one from the other. The materiality of the flower again came forward. By presenting them in bronze, being resilient in form, I aim to subvert their fragility and emphasize their resistance.