Orfeo Tagiuri (b. 1991, Brookline, MA, USA) lives and works in London. Orfeo's practice spans from painting and drawing to performance, film, woodcarving, animation, and music. Orfeo has both exhibited and performed internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018), at Fiorucci Art Trust's Volcano Extravaganza (2016) and the ICA, London (2015). Orfeo is a graduate (MFA Painting, 2019) of the Slade School of Fine Art, and previously attended Stanford University. In 2020, Orfeo was nominated as one of the recipients of the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, with an exhibition opening in May 2021 at the South London Gallery.

In this work, Orfeo Taguiri pulls inspiration from J.R.R. Tolkien who drew a tree with many flowers called the Tree of Amalion, which he considered his "Tree of Tales". Each flower and leaf on the tree represented a story or poem that he wanted to write, but was unable to complete. In Taguiri’s drawing, he utilizes this same tree of many potentials but the character is choosing to love and nourish one of them.