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“At first, I only wanted to paint a pretty picture. But as I painted, I began to see beyond what my eyes could see— and started painting what my emotions saw.” — Roderick Sta. Ana For years, Roderick Sta. Ana’s world was one of balance, proportion, and precision—graphic design’s careful geometry and restraint. But beauty, he would later discover, is not always about control. In Florasona, Sta. Ana breaks free from the discipline of design to rediscover the raw, instinctive joy of expression. Here, flowers are not still lifes nor decorative subjects. They are beings. Each bloom is treated like a portrait—imbued with presence, attitude, even soul. The petals twist, expand, exaggerate, and glow in colors that defy realism. The compositions flirt with caricature, yet beneath the playfulness lies a quiet reverence: an artist listening to what the flowers themselves might be trying to say. Every piece in Florasona is a conversation between control and surrender, sight and feeling. It asks: What if a flower were not just something to be looked at—but someone to be understood? Unlike the hyper-realist’s pursuit of surface perfection, Sta. Ana’s canvases reach for what exists beneath it—the unseen personalities of petals and stems, the emotions that bloom between color and form. His works take us back to art, at its truest, which is not about capturing beauty, but about revealing truth through it.