Floral Depth is an exploration of beauty withheld rather than immediately revealed. A cascade of red, orange, green, and violet blooms emerges through a field of darkness, their forms doubled and softened as though seen through memory, motion, or time.
The darkness is not empty. It conceals a dense living world beneath the visible surface, allowing each flower to appear only partially before receding again. Through chromatic displacement, layered movement, and negative space, Joseph J. Washington transforms the familiar image of a floral arrangement into something intimate, unstable, and elusive.
The work asks the viewer not simply to look, but to remain—to allow perception to adjust and discover what the darkness has been carrying all along.
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