(3 of 3 images
the piece drifts between recognition and abstraction
Monoprint with block hand colored on printmaking paper
Permanent Reflections: Life in Pieces
Blooming Flesh, 2025, acrylic, 20 x 10 in. / 50.8 x 25.4 cm. painting (3 of 3 imagesBlooming Flesh, Jayla Casias, 2025, acrylic, 20 x 10 in. 50. 8 x 25. 4 cm. Blooming Flesh shows a vase of skin and ribs holding eyeball flowers on vein stems, blood dripping from the blooms. It shows growth as raw, messy, and uncomfortableit doesnt avoid pain but rises through it. Wounds are necessary, and what emerges is alive, marked, changed, and resilient.