Unexpected Blooms No. 10

Over the years, she has traveled to 24 cities across 11 countries to photograph graffiti in some of the most incredible street art environments around the world. Katrina says that when’s she’s shooting, there’s a connection she feels to the heart of a city and the people who choose to put their mark on it. To her, graffiti is the ultimate in “mark making”. It’s through this process of discovery, that her appreciation and love of street art has depended. Extracting color and imagery from her photographs she combines them with botanicals and insects she’s photographed in an alternative printmaking process where nature is imbued with the color from graffiti walls. Gestures intertwine with flowers, vines and other botanicals. They are printed by hand with pigment inks on the surface of her work under and over various layers of paint and other mediums. For Katrina, graffiti and gardens evolve similarly: vibrant colors dot both the urban and natural landscape, they fade over time, they decay, and they are renewed. Her graffiti botanicals celebrate the convergence of nature and urban culture, inviting us to explore the unusual beauty that lies within the intersection of these two worlds. Through her art, she hopes to evoke a sense of wonder, connection, and appreciation for the ever-present beauty that surrounds us, even in the most unexpected places. Florals flirt with graffiti, mixing the grit of street art with the grace and beauty that is our natural world.