In Flower 2, Jędrzej Bieńko fuses the act of seeing with the act of blooming. At the painting’s center, a pale blue flower opens around a single eye—its iris mirroring the hue of the petals, as if vision itself were rooted in the soil. Set against an earthen-toned ground, the image radiates a quiet equilibrium between human and terrestrial life.

Rendered in soft, translucent layers on unprimed linen, the composition carries the aura of something uncovered rather than painted, as though it had always existed within the fabric’s weave. The flower-eye hybrid becomes both observer and organism, suggesting a consciousness embedded in nature rather than separate from it. Through this serene and elemental union, Bieńko extends his meditation on permeability and metamorphosis—where the earth looks back, and every living form participates in the act of awareness.