Calm in a World of Calamity

In Greek mythology, Iris was the goddess of the rainbow, who rode the rainbow as a multicolored bridge from heaven to earth and in ancient times, the Iris was considered a symbol of power and majesty, the three petal segments representing faith, wisdom and valour

"Painting Iris" personifies the rainbow and just as the literal rainbow forms a bridge of light between sky and ground the "Painting Iris" is a connection between Heaven and Earth. 

Iris also served both as a messenger and a conveyor of water and for Van Gogh the Iris imbued calm in a world of calamity. It helped Van Gogh glimpse hope of a life for the future. "Painting Iris" directly relates to calamity in the world and to climate change and their destructive forces, "Painting Iris" imbues the increasing human psychosis, created by the human drive to become a species defined and controlled by science and technology, rather than nature. The psychosis deepens as the use of AI technology increasingly defines and changes truth, reality and belief. While science grasps for control over the meaning of life and pretends to be able to control climate change.

Life Energy

Biology a natural science which studies life with several themes that unify into a seemingly coherent field. Energy is one of these fields it transfers its quantitative property to a body or physical system. Giving its life energy motility to grow and reproduce. All organisms are made up of cells forming a narrative of life and its evolutionary process. Life is encoded in genes which transmit information unifying and giving diversity to life.  Each life is capable of regulating their wellbeing by controlling their internal environment.  Climate change is a force which can overturn this natural balance, particularly if it is too fast, too intense, or the evolutionary process finds it unmanageable. Then an extinction event will take place.   

Pellucidity

Iris shine out with a clarity of purpose, singing out with a clear and light tone its intense colours dazzle. It's baroque architecture promotes a clear and concise purpose. Attracting life, offering its environment shared rewards, a satellite of sweet note nectar. A meeting point for collaborative pollination between visitor and iris in a heavily scent filled environment. Much of which goes unnoticed but is a wonderful example of life can be without commodity.