Apart from the usual denotational significance that the spider lily entails, I would like to offer the meaning potential that I derived from the photograph and the context.
The first thing that caught my eye was the 'whiteness' of the spider lily petals contrasting against the blurry green grass patch in the background. Furthermore, in terms of size, the spider lily also occupied a majority of the picture space. Hence, the cluster of spider lilies is undeniably the most salient object in the whole picture. As such, my social semiotic interpretation will revolve around them.

1. As spider lilies grow in clusters, I would interpret them as people in my community. Like the cluster of spider lilies, we live together in a cluster/community (whether we like it or not). Everyone of us are biologically similar and equal, except for some physical differences that exists between us.
   
   
2. The photograph was cut off at the bottom of the cluster, where each individual flower meets at a joint. This is interpreted by me that similar to the spider lilies, each individual human in the community stems from a common starting point, which links to my previous point.
   
   
3. The spider lily, being nature's product, seems to signify the naturalness of living and interacting in a community. This can be linked to the social aspect of humans that makes our community an essential part of our everyday life. Without this community, we may cease to exist. This leads to my next point about the few flowers near the bottom of the photograph that had wilted.
   
   
4. From my point of view, the wilted flowers suggest the stages of life that all humans will have to go through--> Birth and death. It also suggests that we are born into a community and even when we die, the community do not cease to exist. The community will only be wiped out when the last living person in the group leaves/dies.
   
   
5. The spider lilies have long stamens stretching high up above the flower to ensure successful pollination. The spider lilies' attempts to reach out to the pollinators (Eg. bees, butterflies, wind etc.) Relative to humans, it shows that in order for successful interaction to take place, we have to try to reach out to others.

In my opinion, lilies are very precious and at the same time, frail (due to the thin stems and petals). Therefore, I am comparing the human life to the life of lilies. Both needs people to love, care, respect and nurture in order to blossom. The triggers for this metaphor comes from reading the countless reports of abuse and violence among humans that is becoming rampant nowadays. Such behaviours totally disgust me...

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