Garage Station Flowers

The series Garage Station Flowers uses imagined still life as a lens to examine modern dating. Using the cheap bouquets picked up last minute from supermarkets and petrol stations to stand for the desperate state of love in the digital age, the titles of the works capture examples of the way we make each other suffer in modern love affairs, eg ‘Ghosted Again’ and ‘Dumped Over Text’. This semi-autobiographical series is created from imagination and inspired by the experiences of the artist and her friends. Influenced by Roland Barthes’ ‘Lover’s Discourse: Fragments’, the works seek to capture moments of loneliness in the beginnings and ends of love affairs, particularly through moments of waiting, ‘The lover’s fatal identity is precisely: I’m the one who waits’..