In this collection, I wanted to capture the feeling of being inside a dream—where moments blur, memories soften, and everything feels just slightly out of reach. 

Paired with vintage and antique frames, I’ve incorporated modern and abstract concepts, creating a dialogue between the past and present. It’s a blend I think of as “vintage modern”—where contemporary expression meets something of the past with its own story. A large part of this collection is also inspired by Monet, one of my favorite artists. In many ways, this body of work is an ode to the artists who came before us—a place where creative dreams can meet across time.

These abstract pieces are my interpretation of dreamlike gardens—fragments of flowers, shifting foliage, and imagined landscapes. They evoke the feeling of something familiar yet distant, like a memory you can almost touch.

Lately, I’ve been really drawn to these kinds of fragments in my art practice. They remind me of flower petals—delicate, fleeting, and reminiscent of moments that pass too quickly. There’s something beautiful about petals scattered on the ground, like echoes of beauty that once was.

Recently, I came across a Japanese phrase that deeply resonated with me: mono no aware, which translates to “the pathos of things.” It speaks to the fleeting nature of beauty, and it’s a concept I’ve found myself naturally gravitating toward in my work.

Clouds also appear in this collection, symbolizing both family and the transient nature of childhood—how children grow and eventually drift into their own lives, like clouds slowly moving across the sky. There’s a tenderness in that impermanence that I feel deeply as a mother.

I love working with translucent colors, soft layers, and organic shapes that seem to come together almost by chance—but are, in fact, carefully composed. In my process, the white space is just as important as the fragments themselves. It gives the work room to breathe, to hold meaning in both what is present and what is absent.

Elle