Paraf l o r nalia reimagines underwater worlds as thriving gardens, transforming everyday items of waste into marine-inspired creations.

This series continues my research on ways to make the viewer empathize with our seas, developing around our familiarity with everyday objects and the immediate connection we instinctively feel with beauty.

By exploiting the symbolism of flowers to express the beauty of life underwater as a thriving, precious garden, it emphasizes its richness and abundance. Connecting this imagery to historical depictions in mythology and religion as the ideal afterlife or paradise—the non-plus ultra—these works invite us to remember that it is indeed something we could have here on earth if we learned how to take proper care of it.

Finally, Paraf l o r nalia highlights the oceans' essential role in regulating the planet's climate, producing oxygen, and sustaining life, emphasizing the urgent need to protect these vast, life-giving ecosystems from growing threats.

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