Ascendant is one of two digital canvases that together form the NeoBloom series. Within its single composition, three imagined flowers — Oberon, Hermia and Puck — cycle in sequence, each appearing in its full bloom before dissolving and giving way to the next.

Oberon leads the sequence in magenta, the canvas alive with shifts of yellow and purple beneath the dominant hue — a flower as commanding as the fairy king whose name it carries. Hermia follows in white, with deeper layers of peach and cream swirling through her petals, mirroring the passionate, strong-willed character of her Shakespearean counterpart. Puck closes the cycle in orange, his colours restless and shifting, true to the mischievous, transformative spirit of his namesake.

As the viewer approaches, the canvas responds. The active flower breaks into a 'big bloom' — a synthesised dispersal of petals — before reforming and ceding the canvas to the next bloom in the sequence. The interaction collapses the boundary between observer and artwork, and locates the work within a continuous cycle of growth and rebirth.

Ascendant is conceived as one half of a paired statement. Read alongside its companion canvas Concord, the two works form a six-flower composition that holds individuality and harmony in deliberate tension.