Fashion is where I return to play — revisiting the symbols that shaped my childhood and reimagining them as vessels of transformation. Painted in acrylic on paper, my series of Cowboy and Victorian boots surrounded by butterflies and dragonflies speaks to toughness and freedom, frivolity and delight. Through recurring symbols of metamorphosis, these works explore resilience, protection, and beauty, revealing fashion as more than surface — as spark, vitality, and life force. This playful energy becomes the current that fuels the deeper, more existential explorations of Flowers and Forests, grounding them in both memory and imagination.