In Hungarian folk narratives, tulips often appear in textiles and artworks as symbols of womanhood. Cochrane draws on this tradition, depicting tulips at varying stages of bloom to represent different phases of life: the closed bud representing as a young girl, the bloom as a young woman, the half-open flower as the stage of pregnancy, and the fully open tulip as grandmotherhood. By uniting these forms within both the handmade vessel and its painting, she evokes the generational cycle of women - each stage carried within the body, each life blooming into its own being.