After working on canvas, I decided to work with something else - a mason jar. My theme of death and life's transience is sometimes quite a dark subject matter, making me think about the limited time I have on this earth. I feel as though the decision to put the flowers into concealment is a metaphor for my subconscious telling me to stop thinking about such a depressing subject, but I need to do this, I need to express to myself and to my viewers that one day we will die and our mortality will take us one day, whether we want to or not it will happen. The flowers represent the fragility and delicacy of life, they're beautiful, but they are also fake, they will not die, they will not age, they will not decay, they are paper. Unwilling to accept life's mortality. Creating an interesting juxtaposition between life and death. The appearance of them is aesthetically pleasing but the message within the petals is the opposite, contradicting each other.
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