Nathan Carter’s (b. 1970) exuberant new collages continue his recent theme of playfully mixing abstract and organic shapes to create fantastic botanical compositions, named for flowers and vaguely resembling their distinct shapes.

Made from golden foil and colored paper, the collages focus on flowers in the process of blossoming. Thus among the tightly intertwined forms reminiscent of leaves and vines, are also stamen and stigma, evoking the complex reproductive apparatus of plants.