When nature awakens from its winter slumber in spring, the first blossoms quickly emerge from the often still sparse and brown earth.
Between old foliage and brown grasses, the small blossoms glow like radiant harbingers of returning life. Resolutely, the buds pierce through decaying leaves.
Here, Evard depicts a transition. Through the fresh flower buds and brown grasses, he alludes to the past and the new, the dead and the living. Ironically, he places a fly next to the centrally positioned crocus blossom. The fly feeds on the dead and decaying, yet is simultaneously blessed with a very short lifespan. It, in turn, becomes sustenance and symbolizes the cycle of life.