The illustrator and designer Pip Carter (daughter-in-law of AIR MAIL co-editor Graydon Carter) “draws with scissors.” When she isn’t doing illustrations for film studios, musicians, and beauty campaigns, she paints sheets of paper, cuts them, and arranges the fragments into delicate floral compositions. Many of her flowers are inspired by months-long stays on the coast of Maine; others, by the work of artists she admires—Emma Kunz, Agnes Martin, and Henri Matisse, whose drawings she has studied under a magnifying glass. “With each diptych,” Carter says, “I want the viewer to journey into a central vanishing point, as the botanical silhouettes graduate into a haze of cosmic abstraction. I hope to convey a strong sense of motion in these pieces—in both the sway of the petals and the magnetic pull inwards to the invisible.” Her work is now on view at Shreeji, alongside other elegant floral compositions by Freddie’s Flowers—for two days only. —Elena Clavarino