The project is inspired by a visit to M & S Schmalberg, a fourth-generation, family-owned fabric-flora factory in Manhattan, founded in 1916. The factory produces handmade flowers costume designers, fashion stylists, and fashion labels such as Oscar de la Renta, Ralph Lauren, and Marc Jacobs. This sustained act of craftsmanship leaves a tactile imprint on objects designed for artificial eternity and positions the flowers as contemporary nature morte.

Selected floral forms inspired by flowers made at the factory — the Green Viridiflora Rose, the yellow Sunsprite and Sunsprinkle roses, and the apricot-tinged pink Wildeve — are crystallized and translated into essential fractal structures. These are further developed into fractal papercut forms that repeat, mirror, and multiply. They grow outward from the wall or upward from the floor, echoing botanical logic while remaining visibly artificial. Growth is no longer organic but diagrammatic, repeated, mirrored, and unfolded.

The work moves from two-dimensional wall-based prints into three-dimensional space. Traces of a Rose stick, Unfolded Leaves of a Viridiflora Rose I & II extend the wall-based collagraph prints into space through bamboo sticks that prolong the geometric printed shapes, physically linking image and space. Sunsprite, Sunsprinkle, and Wildeve operate through mirroring and reuse, in which the image is produced through collagraph printing using cardboard forms that are later reactivated as sculptural components—leaves mounted on bamboo sticks and unfolded across the floor. Through these parallel processes, the printed matrix becomes spatial matter, allowing the image to extend beyond the wall and into the surrounding space.

This unfolding from surface to volume collapses distinctions between representation and construction. The line, initially printed, becomes structural; the image becomes an environment. Together, the handcrafted flowers and fractalized papercut structures propose a hybrid ecology—one governed not by organic growth, but by repetition, craft, and material translation. Nature is not reproduced but re-scripted, unfolding as a system of lines, iterations, and reflections that occupy space.