In January of this year, 2026, I attended the Times Square Art Alliance Midnight Moment party to celebrate the art of my friend and classmate at The Alternative Art School (TAAS) her video work called Galaxias tou Gala (Milk Galaxy)Â https://www.timessquarenyc.org/tsq-arts-projects/galaxias-tou-gala-milk-galaxy ran the 3 minutes before midnight for one month on all the screens at Times Square.Â
I submitted a video piece myself for this TAAS open call and it was really well received but ultimately a finalist and I did not get the slot. Â These pictures of the event I am sharing were taken by Edwina Hay. Â The remaining pictures are mine and from the Sasha Stiles piece I saw at the MOMA called a Living Poem, I met Sasha through TAAS artist talk she gave. Â The last image is by Mark Dion at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Â I took a course with him at TAAS called Art in the Anthropocene.
My piece that I submitted was called “Go and Sit with the Flowers”, 2025, my editor for this project was Paul Hugins. The garden and flowers are filmed in my garden, a multi year, multi thousand dollar investment to create a microbiome to grow flowers in, here in Austin TX. Â The last image is a still of the work, if you know of a place I should submit this please let me know, thank you.
“This work celebrates the beauty and intelligence of nature, focusing on the wildflowers grown in my front yard garden bed. The garden is not just a source of inspiration—it’s a living collaboration with the land, pollinators, and the rhythms of the natural world. The short film I’ve created is filmed from the perspective of a small being within this garden, where each flower was nurtured from seed, tended with care, and observed closely before becoming a subject in the film. These flowers become both subjects and vocabulary in my paintings and artwork. The plants symbolise resilience, interconnectedness, and the joy of paying attention. I see the short film as a visual meditation on time, memory, and nature’s healing presence. In public spaces, where people are often in motion, this video offers a moment of calm—like a visual breath—reminding us that we are part of something larger, connected through beauty and intelligence in the natural world.”
