Series Title: Gilded Botanica
Painting Name: Still Breathing
Year: 2025
Medium: Mixed media with living plants, organic materials, 24k gold leaf, Carton Piedra on textured substrate; black frame with gold accents
Art is Copyright under Blair Ricker
Gilded Botanica is a mixed-media series that integrates living plants into richly textured, dark-toned compositions. 
Framed in black with subtle gold accents, each piece combines organic materials—evocative of moss, bark, or earth—with genuine 24k gold leaf or paint, creating a striking visual and symbolic contrast between darkness and illumination.
Created during a deeply personal period of healing from complex PTSD, this work serves as both an offering and an artifact of transformation. The living Philodendron hederaceum woven into this piece reflects growth, vitality, and presence, while the gilded elements echo moments of clarity, beauty, and reclamation amid emotional excavation. Through the interplay of texture, life, and light, "Still Breathing" becomes a visual meditation on trauma and healing—a testament to resilience, regeneration, and the sacredness of becoming whole.
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