For this piece, I was thinking about the idea of flowers growing in unlikely places representing resistance against the odds.  I was driving down a highway in Charlotte, NC when I saw this huge, leggy flower with tons of yellow blooms growing out of a crack in the concrete.  I decided to interpret in an abstract way.  I purposefully had the sky blend in with the concrete and made the concrete squares uniform to suggest conformity.  I layered on the paint in the flower to show that even though it looks precarious, it’s a sturdy flower to have grown where it is (see first detail below). I also left a yellow streak in the sky (the same color as the flower) to hint at the possibility of larger consequences or reverberations from this one flower growing out of concrete (see second detail below).