Flower Garden 1972

James Rosenquist made "Flower Garden" using screen printing in an unknown year. The way the colours blend in this piece is really interesting. There's this idea that art-making is a process of discovery, of trying things out and seeing what happens and in "Flower Garden" you can really see this. The textures in the piece are incredible and are created through the use of thin transparent layers, this gives the piece an almost ethereal quality, like you're looking at something that's not quite real. I love how the hands reach up, almost like they're trying to grasp something that's just out of reach. Rosenquist's process reminds me a little of Warhol's, but more dreamlike. Both artists embraced chance and improvisation, but with totally different results. Ultimately art is about embracing ambiguity, and letting the viewer bring their own experiences and interpretations to the work.