HanaMixed media on canvas using dried roses, coffee, pigments, and construction materials.Hana (花), the Japanese word for "flower," explores memory... Read More
Hana
Mixed media on canvas using dried roses, coffee, pigments, and construction materials.
Hana (花), the Japanese word for "flower," explores memory as a living structure rather than a fixed archive.
The work draws inspiration from the cerebellum and the branching architecture of neural pathways, where experiences are continuously reshaped through repetition, sensation, and time. Dried roses form organic networks extending outward from a central core, suggesting both roots and synaptic connections — a landscape where memory grows, decays, and reorganizes itself.
The use of preserved organic material introduces the tension between permanence and impermanence. Once symbols of vitality and transience, the roses remain physically present while simultaneously bearing the marks of aging and transformation.
Coffee, earth pigments, and construction materials create surfaces that resemble sediment, erosion, and accumulated traces, referencing the way memory is not stored intact but layered through experience.
Rather than depicting remembrance directly, Hana invites viewers to consider memory as a living ecology: branching, fragmenting, returning, and quietly shaping who we become.
