Melinae Forse

Melinae Forse working in her studio

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 appearance 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. All my work is in
relation to this statement!” Email – mel.ceramic@hotmail.co.uk tele: 07977731849 for commissions and enquiries.