The Earthlings are post-human figures composed of multiple flowering plants cohabiting a single body, each one a living ecosystem oriented toward a singular collective purpose. Each figure carries within its botanical composition the accumulated symbolic histories of the world's flowering species, an inheritance written into the body before it reaches the mind.

The work operates at the intersection of three frameworks. Through ecology, it proposes coexistence not as an ideal but as a biological fact: distinct species, distinct histories, sustaining a single living form. Through post-humanism, it asks what consciousness looks like when it emerges outside the human, what survives, what transforms, and what reveals itself as never having belonged to one species alone. Through diaspora, each figure carries the accumulated symbolic histories of the world's flowering species, an inheritance written into the body before it reaches the mind.

Misfire is the first painting in the series. The Earthling depicted was caught in the crossfire of war. A missile went through its heart. The painting is about universal love and peace, and how both are currently in jeopardy.