Peace Lily

"Peace Lily" is a portrait of a houseplant, acquired shortly after the visionary encounter depicted in Feathery Serpent. Where that earlier work channeled divine revelation, Peace Lily turns toward the domestic and familiar. The blooms radiate a quiet, improbable vitality, an enthusiasm for being that is at once humble and elevated.

The plant appears to be wired into the same wall current that powers the light boxes themselves, its vitality made luminous through circuitry rather than photosynthesis alone. If Feathery Serpent grappled with an overwhelming vision, Peace Lily suggests that transcendence might just as readily be encountered in the ordinary.