In this painting, the artist maps out individual flowering plant species up close and larger-than-life through her intimate perspective. Delicate yet perennial, the wildflowers depicted in Lee's paintings represent both the transience of existence and an enduring sense of renewal. Meanwhile, her recurring spiral image is a potent and enduring symbol found frequently in the natural world and art history, with its earliest known depictions in petroglyphs from the Neolithic period. These superimposed, winding snakes embody time's cyclical patterns, such as day becoming night, the changing seasons, and the interconnectedness of life, death, and rebirth.

Delaney Lee's practice reflects on the balance between impermanence and nature's cyclical forces by employing a repeated motif of a spiraling snake amid insects and wildflowers native to California. Sumptuously rendered in oil paint and pastel, her subjects radiate with life, detail, and vibrant color. Her paintings speak to invisible forces and the sheer power of nature yet also evoke a sense of caution and an urgency to protect this precarious balance.