The elements in Farooq’s work are made of simple, disposable or previously disposed of material like paper and cardboard.  The flowers the make up the pieces are derived from two-dimensional Japanese family crests that are deconstructed and then reassembled into three-dimensional blossoms that are then assembled together into a larger blossom.  Each small blossom represents a thought or memory that are part of a greater whole, representing a period of time or an experience in the artist’s life.  In the artist’s view his work acknowledges the past but looks forward to a happier and more hopeful future.