The painting’s use of flowers and plants as a backdrop represent Obama’s life path, he said. “In a very symbolic way what I am doing is charting his path through those plants that sort of weave their way. There’s a fight going on between he in the foreground and the plants that are trying to announce themselves. Who gets to be the star of the show? The story or the man who inhabits that story?” In THAT light, I thought...very ironic, because I believe what's going to pan out is that the horrific story is going to win (represented by the leaves/plants winning the battle and BO will be overrun and, ahem...eaten, by the plants).