After the three-part Genesis Core establishes origin, fracture and emergence, The First Flower moves the chronology into a different world — one shaped by experience, observation and the first traces of memory.
Spring I is the first work in The First Flower, a twelve-work sequence unfolding across four seasons.
At this stage, The Young King is no longer presented only as the primal figure that emerged from the Genesis Core. A new visual language begins to appear on his body: simple, childlike drawings made with wax crayon.
In Spring I, the flower takes a direct and uncomplicated form, rising from a grass-like stem. The drawing retains the immediacy of a child's mark rather than the precision of a finished illustration.
The wax crayon remains uncoated, preserving the material character of the drawing as it was made.
Spring I therefore establishes several elements that will continue through The First Flower: the childlike gesture, the changing flower, the passage of the seasons and the gradual accumulation of experience around The Young King.
Genesis gave him a form.
With Spring I, the world begins to leave its first marks upon him.