Acrylic on canvas

50 x 70 cm

Original artwork, unframed

In The Garden Stands Up, a small red figure appears inside a storm of pale blues, whites, pinks, and broken garden colour. He is part body, part plant, part apparition - arms lifted, rooted and exposed, as if the garden itself has suddenly taken human form.

The painting belongs to the same playful garden sequence as The Man Who Bloomed, The Garden Takes Him In, and Cruising the Clearing.

Across these works, the garden is not just a setting. It becomes a place of transformation, flirtation, concealment, and emergence. Plants, bodies, desire, and weather begin to exchange roles.

Here the tone is whimsical but not innocent. The red form suggests growth, display, vulnerability, and comic self-revelation. The figure seems both triumphant and absurd, standing upright in a world that is dissolving around him. Like the rest of the series, the painting uses humour and colour to touch something more intimate: the strange bravery of becoming visible.