Be a Flower

About the project

"Be a Flower" is a mixed media piece, inspired by a song with the same name—a song that lingers in your mind long after it’s finished, like a half-remembered dream. The lyrics, “Be a flower and show me a cool smile. The look on your face is thrilling, and I can’t get my eyes off it,” speak to something elusive, like the flicker of a moment that seems to stretch forever but is gone before you can hold onto it. In the artwork, a portrait sits at the center, surrounded by layers of abstract textures. The scene is dreamlike, suspended between the natural world and the surreal, where soft hues and organic forms seem to float just outside reality. It’s like a fleeting moment caught between waking and sleeping—a face, a smile, an expression that, for reasons you can’t quite explain, pulls you in. The circles, the colors—they don’t just represent a flower’s bloom. They symbolize something more intangible, a sense of beauty in the simple, the quiet, the fleeting. In the same way the song captures a subtle intensity, the piece invites you to pause, to reflect on something that isn’t so much seen as felt. A smile, like a flower, blooms for a moment, but the memory of it, its quiet thrill, remains long after.