Unwelcome Flowers
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea
But sad mortality o'er-sways their power,
How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,
Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
Shakespeare, "Sonnet LXV"
Artist Statement – Unwelcome Flowers
Unwelcome Flowers is a photographic series about beauty, decay, and the uneasy threshold between life and death. In a world obsessed with perfection — with bloom, freshness, and the new — my lens turns toward what comes after: the withering, the fading, the forgotten.
The flowers in this series are wilted, contorted, sometimes accompanied by shells, bones, or animal remains. No longer considered desirable in a conventional sense, they instead take on deeper meaning. They remind us of our own mortality, of nature’s cycles, of the quiet poetry found in imperfection and impermanence.
Using deep shadows and a restrained, baroque lighting style, I evoke the atmosphere of classical still lifes and vanitas paintings. Each image is carefully composed — not to shock, but to slow down time, and to compel the viewer to see what we often overlook.
Unwelcome Flowers is a tribute to the unseen. An invitation to look again — and to find beauty in what remains.
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