Blooming Flesh, 2025, acrylic, 20 x 10 in. / 50.8 x 25.4 cm.

Blooming Flesh, Jayla Casias, 2025, acrylic, 20 x 10 in. / 50.8 x 25.4 cm.

Blooming Flesh shows a vase of skin and ribs holding eyeball-flowers on vein stems, blood dripping from the blooms. It shows growth as raw, messy, and uncomfortable—it doesn’t avoid pain but rises through it. Wounds are necessary, and what emerges is alive, marked, changed, and resilient.