This piece was inspired by a small cluster of Profusion Zinnias that I grew from seed last summer (2025) on my east facing balcony. I was late planting them, they were slow to germinate, and they were slow to mature. But a few weeks before our first hard freeze, flower buds appeared on one of the plants, then, a few days later, on two others. The first to bloom was yellow and orange, and that's the one I chose to focus on. All three (yellow and orange, coral pink, and white) contrasted beautifully with the dark green foliage, but the yellow and orange was especially striking. As I worked on the painting, I had my mind on the full spectrum of visible light, and it occurred to me that this painting was as much about light as about color or about a single flower on one of three plants. Like most of my paintings, it is an experiment with color fields, a full spectrum from three primary pigments (acrylic) on a birch panel, reflecting more on what is reflected and what it does with the eye than on what is "contained."