Worm's-Eye View of Still Life with Vases and Cut-Card Flowers

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Worm's-Eye View of Still Life with Vases and Cut-Card Flowers
by © emma cha

Tiny worms wander.
Paper flowers touch the sky.
Joy becomes sculpture.

A monumental contemporary installation fills a modern art museum. Towering painted and varnished papier-mâché vases, inspired by the joyful ceramic language of Picasso (non-cubist) and the poetic imagination of Miró, overflow with oversized handcrafted cut-card flowers decorated in coloured ballpoint pen and reinforced by bold black marker contour lines. The installation stands on an intense neon-green artificial grass carpet before a museum wall entirely transformed into a luminous Van Gogh daytime sky. Only a few tiny black-and-white tourist worms quietly explore the foreground, immediately revealing the colossal scale of the artwork while introducing gentle humour and narrative.

Artistic Statement:
This work celebrates the pleasure of making. Ordinary papier-mâché, Bristol card and ballpoint pen become monumental sculpture through imagination rather than luxury materials. By adopting the viewpoint of the tiny worms, the familiar still life is transformed into an immersive architectural landscape where flowers become monuments and craftsmanship becomes wonder.

Influences: Pablo Picasso (non-cubist), Joan Miró, Vincent van Gogh