The album of solo piano performances by Battaglia was recorded at Murec Studio in Milan on 5 December 1993.

[1] Various harmonic structures are prevalent in his playing: "Making original use of arpeggiated scalar devices and intervallic structural shifts (cascading a skein of chords tonally from E flat through to A flat 7 while playing all the tones between on the left hand as the right hand builds scales from each half tone in 9/8 time is a common one) gives Battaglia room to juxtapose stylistic considerations not only from jazz but European classical musical as well".

[1] Life of a Petal was released by Splasc(h), as was Baptism, another Battaglia solo piano album from the same year.

[2] The AllMusic review concluded: "this is a physical record with spiritual undertones, a perfect mirror for Baptism in that it shows Battaglia's mettle as both the most inventive pianist of his generation in Italy [...] and his truly eloquent compositional language.

"[1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that the pieces "often seem to be seeking an individual point that never arrives.