The Lanterns: Don't Fly Away

In the first project of the marking period, my art teacher asked us to make lanterns out of cut paper designs. We also had to make the designs resemble a season. A lot of people thought this was incredibly hard but, somehow thinking of a season and design was easy for me.

Ever since I was in about sixth grade I have drawn these doodles of an intense vine with flowers all over it. I have no clue where it came from but I loved it. I drew it all over EVERYTHING. When I was told I had to create this based off a season, I immediately chose spring and wanted to use my design. To make sure I was right I even drew another design yet when I compared I knew there was no other design. When I started cutting, I was only using the spring season. As I continued to cut I realized I didn't just want to draw one season, but the changing of the seasons. In my lantern, as the seasons change, the petals fall and fly away.  In my original plan, I had a circular lantern. So all of the petals leave and then come back. It is a full circle, like the circle of life.  Yet, when I was done, my cuttings didn't work well with a circle so I creased my edges and made a oval lantern.

The only thing I don't like about it is that I don't know which side I like better for the front. Any opinions?