Perhaps he finds beauty saddening - I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked Father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty’s evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die.
Inspired by the Dutch flower paintings of the 17th century, these highly curated images meld a specific gifted jar with a series of found and foraged flowers, seeds and feathers. Intended as an extension of the gifted bouquet or flowers collected and presented in a vase, these images are rich with connotations of the now, and what has been. The idea that a vase has housed hundreds of flowers, each bloom a reminder and a renewal of the preceding flowers.