Three hundred seed packets hang neatly side by side, like on a rack in a garden center. From a distance they form a lush bouquet: a complete image of colors and shapes. Up close, the painterly illusion is revealed: each packet is a small canvas, painted quickly and expressively. Not a perfect depiction, but loose strokes and fragments of color, a palette that only comes into full bloom in its entirety.

Where a classical still life depicts abundant bowls of fruit, flowers, or household objects, carefully arranged to emphasize the transience of life, Still Life (2012) chooses the seed as its starting point. Not ripeness or decay is central, but potential: the germ still in development. The work captures another moment in the cycle of growth and decline, the stage before flowering, when everything is still in the making.