Power Masks
ABOUT POWER MASKS
These early photographic works are where flowers first became symbolic and psychological in my practice — not simply beautiful forms, but masks, shields, and symbols of what we reveal and what we protect.
Created during a period of creative transition, the Power Masks opened a path toward photography as a new medium and helped lay the groundwork for the later textile garden installations.
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outside i wear my brightest blooms like a smile but the weeds the weeds they always come to steal the light (a tribute to Kate Spade)
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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why so blue flower cage (POWER MASK)
2018 (2025)
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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buried beneath my plumes of purple rumbles steel and calm
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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sometimes i put on all of my flowers at once i am transformed into the most beautiful blur of color like a rainbow exploded and i have collected its power on the inside
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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oh the bright side pollyanna they say be brighter and brighter and brighter but don’t explode ok?
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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at night covered with leaves a hedge of protection badassery like batman or batwoman but the pink puffs kinda give me away
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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I am a Flower (Power Mask) White Hydrangea
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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I am a Flower (Power Mask) Red Yellow White
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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I am a Flower (Power Mask) Foxglove
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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hey sweetface looking good
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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I am a Flower (Partial Truth Mask) Hibiscus
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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The Garden (Women)
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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I am a Flower (Power Mask) Pollyanna
2018
Archival Inkjet on Museum Rag
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SELECTED INSTALLATIONS:
2018 61st Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Gallery, Chautauqua, NY
2018 Flowers & Facades: Dustyn Bork & Heidi Carlsen-Rogers, William F. Laman Library Gallery, Little Rock, AR
2018 NA Martin Studio / Art Tour, Bentonville, AR
