Acrylic on canvas 50 x 70 cm Original artwork, unframed In The Dick Flower Bloomed, a bright green face stares out from behind a strange purple flower rising straight through the centre of the painting. The form is comic, botanical, erotic, and impossible to ignore - part plant, part body, part joke, part declaration. The "dick flower" is not invented out of thin air: it refers to real phallic-looking flowers and fungi found in nature, including arums and stinkhorns, where botanical growth already looks startlingly erotic. The painting belongs to the same playful garden sequence as The Man Who Bloomed, The Garden Takes Him In, Cruising The Clearing, The Garden Stands Up, and The Flower Who Watched. Across these works, the garden becomes a queer stage where plants, bodies, desire, humour, and visibility begin to emerge. Here the flower is not discreet. It is proudly ridiculous, tenderly sexual, and oddly ceremonial. The painting treats the phallic form not as something hidden or ashamed of, but as something that grows, performs, blushes, and blooms. The result is funny, intimate, and defiantly alive - a queer garden image about pleasure, exposure, and the strange courage of being seen.
