ORÁCULO, by Tomás Esson is an oil painting on a ten by nineteen-foot canvas. It is painted in a landscape orientation, meaning that the longer side runs parallel to the floor when on display in a gallery. This very large artwork presents a fully painted canvas of vibrantly colorful flowers, long flat green palm fronds, with many vividly detailed and repeated petals and floral stems. The artwork is densely packed with painted imagery, giving ORÁCULO a very crowded composition. From left to right, and top to bottom, the red, white, pink and yellow rounded shapes of the flower petals compete with the vertically painted stems, all on a field of dense green and yellow tropical foliage. Overall, because of the sheer number of long and narrow plant stems and floral stigmas aligned in a repeating up and down orientation, despite being a landscape, the painting has a forced verticality. The majority of the flowers resemble the Calla Lily. This flower’s shape is similar to an inverted bell, or an empty ice cream cone in shape. The single petal forms a wide circular rim that tapers downward into its stem. In the empty space contained by the flower’s petal, the stigma, a rod that contains a plant’s reproductive organs, stands as a thin vertical column. The lilies painted in ORÁCULO vary highly, ranging in size from several feet to around eight inches tall, randomly distributed throughout the wide area of the canvas. By far the most repeated of these forms is a white-petaled depiction of this flower. Shooting straight up and out of the teardrop-shaped vessel within the flower, is a green rod, extending past the rim of the white lily. The green stigma ends by widening to form a circle with a small hole in its center, like a small hose with a bulge at its end. The rim of this white lily is painted with a deliberately bright and flesh-like pink fold. Along the lily’s center, where the two halves of the petal meet, more wavy pink folds, resembling the labia of biologically female human, face outward, toward the viewer. The other flowers in ORÁCULO depict more traditional floral designs, some with four, five, or six petals, radiating from a small, central red circle. They are all scattered randomly throughout the canvas, giving the painting a sense of being in a dense and lush flowerbed.