- I've been an artist my whole life, but just eight years ago really started the foliage work, and I'm obsessed with it.

(gentle music) I just started gathering foliage.

My mom was a big gardener.

And I was just making these little houses in the grass.

I would separate the grass and then I would be doing these little just leaves.

Like, I would make little forts for 'em, kind of like it was a little house.

I was just always creating and I just felt connected with, it made me just feel really good.

I'm just having so much fun trying to push this medium that I used to do when I was really little, never even thought about it, though, into this sort of, just trying to push it and see how far I can take it.

There's something about it, and I think it's just been very therapeutic for me, that is just keeping me going back.

(soft music) I had this vase, and all the pedals were like just, you know, around it and kind of dead and it was looking sad, and I just started playing with them, and I was just having a lot of fun.

It got me outside.

It pushed me out the door because I was looking out my window, and I'm like, oh, wow, those leaves look cool.

I could use these flowers off this lady's tree that's hanging over the fence.

(soft music) And it just, like I said, just kept pushing me out the door, so, and out of my head, which I needed, definitely.

I do love making, doing portraits.

Elton John, John Lennon, Martin Luther King, Iris Apfel, Diana Ross, Cher, Audrey Hepburn, Oh, Einstein.

Frida Kahlo, of course.

I've done her 49 times.

I just always thought she was just such a (beep) woman.

I mean, my God, she's just so cool.

And she just had been through such a horrific physical experience, you know?

And, but she always, no matter what she was painting, nothing was gonna take her down.

I never looked at it as a bad thing happening to me.

I was just thinking, why, why?

What can I learn from this?

There's half... And it's just, I think it's about the journey through going through it.

I would've never started at foliage art.

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