I had started this painting a few days before the beginning of 2nd year at university. I only completed it after the December exams. Two movies served as inspiration: The Last Samurai, and the other is a movie a friend lent me, Kill Bill. After watching those two I knew what my next project was going to be. The actual size of the painting is bigger than most of my other ones.

This was the second oil painting I’d ever done. Some paintings hide a certain pattern. This one has a diagonal flow to it: from the top right corner (the top of the bottle) to the bottom left corner (the flowers). The point is to break the diagonal flow with something. In this case, the brightest flower on top of the other ones does this. Another pattern is the triangle formed by the flowers. If you squint your eyes a bit, the triangle is the only thing you see. The flower at the top of the triangle (the one that also breaks the diagonal flow) is supposed to be the focal point of this painting.