I am interested in exploring themes of desperation and confusion through a playful and slightly humorous lens. I seek to depict plants and biomes that embody moods and traits usually reserved for human subjects. Flowers are often presented as symbols of natural beauty, or in many cases, as benign decorations meant to “tie the room together.” My work challenges this notion by placing an emotional weight on the plants that centers them as the protagonist in a surreal conflict with both natural and unnatural forces. By pushing ourselves to assign human emotions to plants, we can better understand the devastating toll that we often unknowingly inflict upon the natural world.