Full Bloom examines how the material lead and the symbolic nature of flowers express the paradoxical link between the world brought to us by our senses our desires and death. The accumulation of matter plays a role in shaping the work while simultaneously conveying the emptiness of over-consumption and the deep gulf between what is recorded of the past and present experiences. Lead plays a leading role bringing with it a dark and troubling history. Its properties make the history of its use manifold and contradictory, as murderous projectile and shield; protecting and destroying, attracting as much as repelling. Flowers symbols of luck and love, markers of mourning, of devotion, of celebration, used to remember, to declare, to fill voids; playing a complex role in seduction and desire. The social, political and personal merge together to explore themes of mortality and the human condition.