Juvenal Sanso is possibly the most accomplished landscape artist in the Philippines today, and his mastery of flora organically extends to his still lifes. In this work, A Dream Song, Sanso offers the viewer a stalwart bouquet whose stems are fat with nourishment and the flowers — five red globes — appear to hover and actively rotate. It surges upward in its sheer verticality before fanning out to frame the silver disk of a heavenly body. The blueness of the background sets off the bouquet, as though it became all of a sudden true to touch . The work is a signature Sanso — an affirmation of the life-giving quality of earth as well as the heart-stopping forms of beauty that it offers us generously as a gift.