Phantlife

As a piece, Phantlife's various inspirations are less than obscure to me as a critic, as I am well acquainted with this niche genre, and with the synonimously-spirited artist.
As such I find myself in the familiar conundrum of struggling to view Phantlife objectively, and give it the space to give it's message that it so righfully deserves. Nonetheless, upon physically standing back and basking in the radioactive incandescence, I begin to appreciate the colours, shapes and meanings which I believe make this piece stand out from it's contemporaries.
The first major difference I would draw attention to is the unique central focus of a single object of focal interest, which is a rarity in my experience of the genre, and especially unique in the Phantpic.
In this central object, and its positioning, we can see a variety of visual metaphors and meanings; at once a sun flare, a mushroom cloud and a tree of radiant life, each of which is backed up by the surrounding vibrance of placed colours, the blue hues beneath could be a deep ocean typical of a view of earth from space, the reds and oranges at the base of the 'tree' could be a leaf-strewn groundscape, or at once the colours present on a sattellite's thermal scope viewing the surface of the sun in inversion.
But what, then, is the meaning of this gleaming edifice of light and colour? Arguably, it could be presented that the 'life' in 'Phantlife' really refers to this singular object, which simultaneously manifests as a force of nature and death, precariously suspended in uncertainty and unlikelihood.