Floral Empowerment Collection
Home is where I draw strength from.
Home is the place where I am my most authentic self.
Home is an extension of our personality.
Being at home means finding a place of peace or sanctuary,
a place to be oneself,
a place to feel connected and belonged.
A sense of belonging.
People need connection to the past, future, to the people they live with, to the things that matter to them. Why do we bring beauty around us? Why do we surround ourselves with the things that make makes us feel like us? Why do we choose some certain beddings, tablewares or clothes? Our identity of human needs to be communicated, not only to the outside world but also to ourselves. We need to feel certain things about ourselves. That’s why we need art that resonate with us at home, to create a sense of belonging for ourselves.
Left: friends’ artworks, museum tickets from a France trip, hemp rope lampshade handmade by me, delicate dry hydrangea carried all the way from Japan, hand-written affirmations on the wall
Middle: macramé made by mom, plants & art corner
Right: JD’s photo from childhood, group photo from Oaganik festival, JD’s birthday card from a cyclist friend, cut Lacy Tree Philodendron gifted by a dear friend)
“Gentle comfort with a bit of contrasting drama,
from my studio to you. ”
Color Psychology
Flowers relieve stress, lift the spirit, and ease away anxiety and depression symptoms. Flowers give you a connection to nature, to something beyond your normal environment.
Colors can make us feel happy or sad, and they can make us feel angry or relaxed.
These reactions are rooted in psychological effects, biological conditioning and cultural imprinting.
Colors and emotions are closely linked.
Warm colors can evoke different emotions than cool colors and bright colors can create different feelings than muted colors.
It all depends on how the psychological effects of color are being used.
Every color creates different emotions and feelings.
Humans need a bit of nature in their home to feel grounded with peace and comfort. Based on Biophilia hypothesis, it is proposed that the tendency of humans to focus on and to affiliate with nature and other life-forms has, in part, a genetic basis. This explains why we find plants or animals so soothing. When you bring a live plant into your home, you are literally breathing new life into the room. (Dry treasures, too.) I hope you feel a sense of belonging with my art.
Stone drawings of flowers were found in ancient Egyptian graves 120,000 years ago, were celebrated in festivals in Roman times, and, in China, were created in silk 2000 years ago. Sometimes, it seems complicated to find the right words to express your emotions. And in that, flowers help you to speak your heart out. People would give their loved ones beautiful flowers to express their feelings of admiration and love. For years blossoms have been used as a way to send unspoken messages of the heart.
The back of Mountain Floral
Early humans who liked flowers probably made more babies than those who didn’t. 500,000 years ago, a few nomadic hunter-gatherers had a gift: an odd fixation with flowers. All their peers were indifferent to flowers. Nevertheless, flowers appear on trees and bushes a few months before edible fruits and nuts show up. Animals that flocked to this bounty could be hunted and eaten too. So those flower-fixated nomads were lured into one food-rich environment after another. They ate like kings and produced many children. Meanwhile, their flower-indifferent cousins wandered into poorer landscapes, and they didn’t survive or reproduce very well. The flower-fixated group outbred the flower-indifferent group, and we’re all descended from the winners of that genetic face-off. We all have flower fixation in our genes. Now, the blossoming of a flower triggers the sense that something special is coming. They gained more freedom with flowers. I found more freedom in creativity.
(I often paint on two sides of paper.)
Dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin
Historically, flowers triggered dopamine for our hunter-gatherer ancestors because they marked the coming of abundance after a hungry winter.
Serotonin is popularly thought to be a contributor to feelings of wellbeing and happiness. Flowers can help stimulate a sense of pride and excitement with others, and release serotonin – whether you grow them, buy them, give them, receive them or admire them from a distance.
Often called the “love hormone,” oxytocin is associated with empathy, trust, and relationship building. Flowers communicate the intention to invest effort in a relationship, helping you to connect with and feel closer on an emotional level to people around you.
Why do I paint flowers
I guess it’s the roots from my grandma’s aboriginal side that made the women in my family into plants. I have only foliage plants at home because I can’t bear to see flowers die. I paint these flowers out of my necessity.
People who support creativity deserve to have a beautiful home.
Your home should celebrate your story and inspire you with meaningful pieces. Having an art piece at home is to make your place more individualized to you. It makes your home feel more like you.
10% profit of the collection will be donated to a non-profit organization, called Taiwan Dream City Building Organization (臺灣夢想城鄉營造協會), based in Wanhua, Taipei. They help poor lonely people by empathically understanding. They empower the poor to find hope of light in their life. Their goal is to help people who are who are desperate due to poverty to rebuild their interpersonal relationships, get out of loneliness, and find their hope in life. They also connect the poor, local networks and young volunteers to form a network of interpersonal connections for mutual learning and growth, hoping to bring more people in to promote the "coexistence" and "community" of the poor and the society.
Let me show you the light in real life.
It’s more than just a painting. —>
I hope they bring you calmness and power to empower you to be your authentic self.