"Blossom of Light" is my very first surrealism painting that I had did, it's also inspired by a Manga series that I has read recented that called "Houseki no Kuni" (probably you guys has known it as "The Land of Lustrous". I wasn't a fan to come to watching anime in general,but I did saw clips of Houseki no Kuni anime on Tumblr and I has admitted the visual effects in it does looks beautifully amazing. I has been watching videos on surrealism and digital on YouTube recently. I just noticed someone was doing some amazing digital fanart on Phos. I don't known who's Phos until I googled Phos' full name and I found out that Phos is the protagonist of Houseki no Kuni. I decided to give the Manga a try,because Phos reminds me of Kaneki in the way.I ended up doing a digital painting of Phos becoming human inside a chrysalis (butterfly's cocoon) at first, because chrysalises are similar to seashells. I could imagine Sea slug people will restructuring a chrysalis out of Phos's remains and will wind up turning Phos into a human after Phos sacrifices his/her life to save sea slug people from being slaughter by The Lunarians. I don't like the first painting at all, because it doesn't looks like Phos inside a chrysalis and it had no key items (like Lapis' head and Phos' gem body) that makes Phos...So I decided to use a different art app to make another Phos painting and it was showing Phos's ripping a human heart of his gem body (I am having a feeling that Phos will wind up becoming a boy,but I don't know and maybe Phos will becoming a girl) when Phos' merging out of a seashell. I thought the new art app that I tried out was cool,because it let you search for pictures to use as references and it has varieties of mix medias (like watercolors, oils, markers, colored pencils; and pen and inks). But sadly, I had deleted that app; I found out that I was on a trial and I had to pay the app. I even ended up losing my second Phos painting because of it....When I has been working on my Lunarian theory (it's really long theory and it is taking me forever to finish it) and I was looking more info for my theory, I has found out that Houseki no Kuni is possible based on "The Secret of the Golden Flower" ( www.alchemylab.com/golden_flow… ). This "Blossom of Light" idea came up in my mind when I was at work,because I was thinking about the picture that shown two mermaid dolls sinking down the bottom of the sea in Camilla D'Errico's colorbook and I am thinking about how to use it as a reference for a Houseki no Kuni painting. This is how Blossom of Light and I even putted a lot symbolisms into this piece. It became one of my newest favorites.I will tell which symbolisms means in this painting and it'll be a short version of my theory that I has been writing. Lapis's head represents as logical,because the gemstone Lapis lazuli symbolizes wisdom, Vision,and spirituality ( thehealingchest.com/crystals-s… ). Lotus represents the Elixir of Light that sprouting out of Lapis' head,because Lotus can symbolizes rebirth and awakening ( www.whats-your-sign.com/symbol… ) . The moon represents the Moon People who wants to awaking the Elixir of life (lotus) from Lapis' cracked head to so they wants to be reborn again ( I don't believe they want to crossover into the afterlife with Sensei's "help" like Achema said,because I believe he's lying to Phos and using gems to make a Elixir in order to become humans again. I think they wants to shut Sensei down,because Sensei is protecting the Gems). The roots refers to as Phos' arms and the roots represents a new beginning of everything like a seed sprouts its roots when it planted inside the ground. The red crystal represents a womb and that means someone getting inside it. Inside the red crystal, there's lie a human figure and that human figure is Phos's getting reborn from the Elixir of Life that originates from Phos' former gem self. The seashell references as Phos' transformation and "bring in new life". Shattered of shards represents the fragments of Phos's gem body that started breaking down. The butterflies and Stars representing Phos' rebirth and Phos's body.I feels like this where the story's going to go in future. I decided to visualized to where it go to put it into a painting like my Tokyo Ghoul paintings in the past. I hope you guys like it. 😇