Blooming: a mirrored arrangement of pressed flowers on a black ground

Blooming

Image making·Series·2025

Final project for the course Image-Making, developing a series of images from a chosen subject - in my class's case, plants, through visual research and study.

I focused on botanical ingredients commonly used in natural cosmetics, researching the combinations that recur in real products and the properties each plant is chosen for. From those pairings I built a series of symmetric, ornamental patterns, each one a specific combination of species, in a restrained palette meant to feel clean and calm but also fresh and awake.

Each pattern became the wrapping of a cosmetic product, packaged in a box designed around the properties of its ingredients.

Blooming: mirrored hibiscus on pale blueBlooming: mirrored yellow blossom on pale blueBlooming: mirrored daisies on pale blueBlooming: mirrored lavender on pale blue