New Floral Works

LULA CAFE, Chicago, IL
Winter 2024-25

Exhibition Text

Flor @ LULA CAFE

Lista para recibir a los polinizadores (Capuchina)
Ready to Welcome Pollinators (Nasturtium)
Soft pastel on paper framed
19” x 27”
2024
My heart’s an open field **
Soft pastel on paper framed
16” x 20”
2024
Give it all to the wind **
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
9” x 12”
2024
Endings in Bloom *
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
10" x 8"
2024
Moonlit snow creek
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
9” x 12”
2024
El baile del polen (Geranio)
Pollen Waltz (Geranium)
Soft pastel on paper framed
12” x 16”
2024
Caricias de Filamentos (Geranio)
Filaments Caresses (Geranium)
Soft pastel on paper framed
12” x 16”
2024
Cosmo swaying with the wind
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
8” x 10”
2024

After channeling Kiki, a queer monar butterfly to make paintings, Flor returns to painting flowers. having had learned from a polinator of the sensual dance of the polen, the tickleling of the stamen and sticky stigmata.

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El Cariño de los Filamentos (Geranio)
The fondness of filaments (Geranium)
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
16” x 20”
2024
Late rose in the snow *
Soft pastel on paper framed
artwork 8” x 12”
frame 12” x 16”
2024
Tunel del amor (Taco de reina)
Tunnel of love (Nasturtium)
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
18” x 24”
2024
Abierta a el sol y su calor I
Welcoming the Sun and Its Warmth I
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
16” x 12”
2024
Abierta a el sol y su calor II
Welcoming the Sun and Its Warmth II
Soft pastel on paper mounted on wood panel
16” x 12”
2024

Title lines borrowed or inspired by

* T.S. Eliot’s “East Coker”
** Tenci “My heart’s an open field”

Flor
Flor Body Works 2021-Present