artwork
The First Flower — Summer III
- Artist
- Vo Anh Tuan
- Year
- 2026
- Medium
- Mixed media sculpture with unvarnished wax-crayon drawing
- Edition
- UNIQUE ARTWORK · 1/1
- Classification
- The Young King Universe Canon
Summer III records the final stage of Summer within The First Flower, when the energy accumulated through the season begins to release outward. The dense floral energy of Summer II has started to open and disperse, allowing larger areas of the ivory sculpture surface to return.
The sun has moved higher and reached a position just beyond its strongest point. The Blue Butterfly has left the Young King’s shoulder and now stands near his foot, quietly observing the Genesis Shell Fragment without touching it. These shifts mark Summer not as vanished, but as a season beginning to let go.
Among the dominant red and orange flowers, a single pink-purple flower appears apart from the others. It is a small but deliberate change: the first quiet sign that Autumn is approaching. Summer III therefore closes the Summer sequence through release, transition and the earliest indication of the season that follows.