During Miami Art Week, we presented the world premiere of FLOWER OF LIFE — the largest and most intimate portrait of a vagina ever exhibited.

Immediately upon entering the fair, visitors met her in full majesty. Nearly seven feet tall and embraced by a carved wooden baroque frame, FLOWER OF LIFE resembles a classical painting more than a photograph. Everyone who encountered the work was struck by a raw sense of recognition. In this encounter, the familiar became monumental, and the monumental became deeply human.

"There is no such thing as sinful skin. Our naked bodies are always in humble integrity. There is divine poetry in our sexes."

FLOWER OF LIFE
Canvas with Carved Wooden Baroque Frame
Limited Edition of 3
166cm x 200cm

She undresses culture from its thick layers of propaganda, stripping away inherited shame and narratives that obscure what is immediate and real. The image of a vagina is pretty much non-existent in the art world. It’s often seen as too taboo, rather than the powerful muse that she is. How can something so exquisite and beautiful be deemed shameful? In the presence of FLOWER OF LIFE, what remains is clarity. The body as it is before it is interpreted, corrected, or concealed. To look upon ourselves without distortion is to encounter the geometry of existence itself.

I am a sinless seed
I am the seed of my mothers apple
I am the seed of the seed of the seed of the seed
I am the seed of the original seed

through her sacred flower
I gave birth to myself
I descended mother
to witness
the light of earth
I covered myself with the blood of christ  
washed myself with the flow of life

I am veiled by nature
as a fleur-de-lis
I am given a gift
a shell of shielding soft skin
my fingers follow my truth
touch upon my flesh
profound pleasure when kissed
behold, 
what a shame if missed

I do not deny myself
I am not a forbidden fruit
for the sake of sacredness
I open my leaves of unity

bloom,
my holy fruit

this is our origin
this is our naked truth