Recognizing that textiles historically has constantly referenced floral imagery as a source for textile patterning it seemed important to research the one area of textiles expression I had avoided. The floral works are split into two groups the initial Stars Underfoot photographic series and the subsequent computerised machine embroidery, acrylic paint, wood, glass and collages, first exhibited in Field of Centres, 2004 Exploring the illusionary space between two and three dimensions, these works were colourful, dramatic, rhythmic and holographic in feel with intense detail that merged at a distance into strongly optical configurations.