This is one of Joseph’s top selling print. It has made it onto many walls of collectors who connect with the stories within the piece. Included is a composed image of nine individual flowers that are enduring the struggles and challenges of life. Starting from the top left going to the right and then down, here are the nine concepts:

1. Dodging the bullets of life. Sometimes, you get scarred and you learn not to lean in the same direction again.

2. Surviving the coldness of life and melting away the negative energy that surrounds you.

3. This one shows that beauty can sprout from any environment.

4. Growing up through the gutter.

5. Surviving a disaster and being proud of the scars.

6. Surviving a loss and defying the laws of gravity to stay afloat.

7. Surviving hell.

8. Resisting the temptations in life.

9. Being up to your neck in stress. When others drown in the situation, this flower survived until low tide.

10. Holding the fractured ground together with the strength of the flower roots.

11. Finding new opportunity. It might not be the same stem that the flower grew up with, but it is a viable resource for sustaining life.

12. This piece illustrates the beauty of finding your soulmate. When the two are briefly separated, they feel incomplete.