[Jowita Wyszomirska] I'm Jowita Wyszomirska, and I'm originally from Poland. I am a Baltimore based artist I'm also a gardener, and I am quite obsessed about plants, and they inform almost every aspect of my life. There are several elements in this painting that kind of stopped me in my tracks when I was walking by. I recognized right away the complexity of floral patterns and plants, which I have to say always attract me. It is very small, very intimate. And yet the brush strokes have a lot of detail. And what I love about this is that balance of seeing specificity but not being able to necessarily name each plant. There's a lot of light coming through. We can't see the frame of the windows. And on the left side, the composition is cropped by something that could be part of a window, but it also could be just like a very large stem maybe a bamboo tree or just some larger plant. How I approach my work is to be able to trace or capture my relationship with nature. We have a really complex relationship with nature and trying to figure out kind of human place in nature and how we can be part of nature again. I am attracted to processes that I can't quite control. I have to find a balance and figure out how I can work and add my voice to it. So for example some of the processes I have been doing lately are using natural dyes and botanical printing. And I'm always surprised by what comes out, so in a way, there's always a push and pull or a tension between chaos and organization, which I see in nature. The way this artist painted the work has some of those similar qualities in the sense that maybe I could recognize some of the plants; however, all the textures and brushstrokes assimilate together and they almost fall apart so I can see them and then unsee them at the same time. So there's that specificity, detail, but at the same time I just see growth and wildness in there. I think nature has the balance between the two, the chaos and organization at the same time. I am very excited and honored that the BMA has one of my works in their collection; you can see the image reference here on the guide.