Flower Totem, 2021

9" x 12" Watercolor on Paper; unframed.

Flower Totem presents death not as negation but as stewardship, a reaper who tends rather than harvests. The ragged figure carries both blade and bloom, embodying the paradox of mortality as the condition that allows life to flourish. The flowers growing from the hollowed head suggest thought replaced by growth, identity surrendered to cycle. This is an agrarian god of endings, neither cruel nor kind, but necessary—an icon of balance where decay becomes caretaking.

Daily Painting #96. April 12, 2021.