If it weren’t for accidents, this work wouldn’t exist; some of the best things we do happen entirely on whims. This is the culmination of such from an artist that did not mean to do this when she first started.
“I want to do a painting, and no one can stop me!” was the first thing Stephanie wrote this semester – then she picked some violets off the nature strip on the ten-minute meander to uni from the car, and they were too pretty to die. Thus, a tiny bottle cap was filled with water to prolong their already-shortened life just a tad more, and the makeshift vase was born.
She became extremely concerned with preserving the little, overlooked beauties in our streets and putting them where someone could appreciate them – ironically, in something we throw away without a thought: wrappers.
And, a step further: immortalising it in paint.
Likewise, the ghostly, ‘unwanted’ reflections within the pictures taken in gallery visits get ignored for what is trying to be captured – but Stephanie presents them as equal, even enhancing to the work itself: a new work, dressed in new patterns, some even ‘signed’ by the artist’s reflection herself.
Photos were taken from Dombrovskis: Journeys Into the Wild, at Monash Gallery of Art. Coincidentally, Stephanie initially didn’t want these reflections, either.

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