Heading Toward the Sky

A tall coneflower with a spiky orange-red seed head and pale pink petals curves on a bending stem from a gray vase painted with a white daisy pattern and a small green beetle, rising above a dense row of smaller coneflowers in grayscale, pale blue, cream, and pale peach tones set against dark, shadowy foliage. The background is a soft, hazy blue-gray gradient suggesting an overcast sky. Asako Iwasawa, *Heading Toward the Sky*, 2016, acrylic.