Jester's Paradise, 2025

9" x 12" Watercolor on Paper; unframed.

In Jester’s Paradise, the bouquet blooms not with petals but with a dozen leering/grimacing goblin heads. Their expressions—mocking, scheming, and sly—call to mind the trickster spirits of folklore, from the Norse Loki to the sly Puck of Shakespeare’s faerie woods. Arranged like a floral offering, they parody the idea of beauty, presenting instead a carnival of mischief, as if the vase itself were a stage and the heads a chorus of jesters performing for the viewer. In mythic terms, it is a shrine to chaos and satire, where the flowers of the otherworld bloom in laughter sharp enough to cut.