Revision

In Revision, Brianna Lance returns to the orchid as a central motif, painting it not simply as a botanical subject but as a symbol of charged beauty—elegant, erotic, and elusive. Around it, moths hover in suspended tension, drawn toward visible candles whose flames burn with a strange permanence. These are not fleeting lights; they are deliberate, eternal beacons—flames that cannot be extinguished, offering no promise of safety, only compulsion.

The composition exists in a space of symbolic contradiction, where attraction edges into peril, and beauty is inseparable from desire. Lance’s use of historically feminine imagery—orchids, moths, candlelight—builds a quiet intensity, a narrative without beginning or end. Painted in her distinct, surreal style, Revision is both lush and unsettling, capturing the moment just before contact, where instinct and inevitability flicker against the unknown.