Don't forget to smell the flowers

Original artwork | Painting on canvas 150x130cm “Don’t Forget to Smell the Flowers” is a visual collage of a mind that never fully rests. Built from fragments of observation, memory, and instinct, the work brings together a quiet classical face, small moving figures, and an oversized flower that insists on tenderness. As a designer, I carry a photographic archive of details: gestures, rhythms, moments that felt aesthetic or emotionally charged. The miniature figures echo that constant inner motion, the everyday choreography of thoughts, plans, and overthinking. The face holds stillness, the part of me that pauses and watches, while the flower acts as a gentle reminder to slow down, to return to what is alive and simple. The single red mark becomes an open symbol: for some it reads as anxiety, for others as a sign of hope. The painting doesn’t aim to resolve into one clear narrative. Instead, it offers an honest mental landscape, where stillness and noise coexist, and meaning remains personal.