Laid Still — Still Flora

“Flowers grow out of dark moments.” — Sister Corita Kent

These floral photographs are part of an ongoing project that explores the language of flowers and their passage through nature’s cycles of bloom, decline, and death. I have long been drawn to flowers for both their visual beauty and their botanical complexity. Across cultures, flowers mark significant moments in our lives. They are present in celebrations, expressions of love, periods of illness, and rituals of mourning. As cultural symbols, they remind us of the fragility and the transience of life. By bringing flowers into the studio and photographing them, I preserve them in different stages of their life cycle. The camera freezes a fleeting moment, transforming these living forms into records of time passing. Each composition becomes a meditation on change, memory, and impermanence. Through these photographs, I explore the tension between preservation and decay. While the flowers themselves continue their natural process of transformation, the image remains fixed, allowing us to contemplate their beauty, vulnerability, and inevitable passage through time.