One of the key motifs in Ross Bleckner’s artistic production, the image of a flower reflects his preoccupation with the ephemerality of living things. In Revolve (2025), the petals appear in motion, unravelling amid the soft glow of an external light source and highlighting the purple and yellow hues in the composition. Rendered in soft focus, the flower appears distant, offering a meditation on our ability to grasp and hold on to beauty over time.

As the artist notes, “The idea of dissolution is really part of what beauty is. I mean, the things that are most beautiful are also sometimes the most painful. It's all about a time span – I try to incorporate that idea of a time span in my painting, by making things sometimes concrete, and then sometimes they're basically erased. It’s about how things disappear, quickly, you just take the brush, do that, and they're gone.”