This is one of a large group of images created in response to my reading of a cycle by the contemporary Chinese poet Lin Xi. Asuro, the poem which inspired this image and another elsewhere in this exhibition, talks about love gone sour, one lover having broken the glass slipper of love by becoming the mythical warrior-god Asuro, swathed in flames. In this series of images I attempted to capture the key elements of the poem in the combination of flowers in my yard, painting the images on film by building the image one exposure at a time. The placement of all the elements in the image was worked out before I started shooting and it took about an hour to create each of the images.