This work is part of a series of still life paintings by the artist. Each work depicts lilies at different stages of bloom, arranged in a single vase set upon a table. Individual stems gesture and move across the composition in a sort of dance, presumably affected by gravity or time. This work exemplifies the artist’s interest in exploring the formal strategies of painting, such as movement and how colors interact when applied to shapes. The arrangements are entirely constructed, and the flowers are often distorted in order to stay within the frame. In addition to the lilies, the artist has included other objects: glowing phones, books without visible text, a pinecone and other everyday things—as if they just happened to be left there by someone who is not otherwise present.

Although Ezra Johnson painted these works “from life,” the artist's process emphasized subjective truth rather than objective fact. The resulting figures are nothing like the original models. In the history of painting, flower forms are commonly used for the exploration of color. Similarly, Johnson has explored several compositional and color possibilities in these playful works. Remnants of these experiments show up as ghost textures or colors in between the shapes, and are evidence of the artist's trial and error approach.