Flowers Never Bend with the Rainfall

“We were put first into a garden when we lost Eden, and since then we were fated to search and reinvent it again.” (A Little Chaos).

It is the power to be, to persevere in being, without succumbing to decay and descending into nothingness. Plant behavior and human comportment share this goal. Mounting from the darkness of the roots to become full bloom in the light of the surface, Flowers need to conquer their existence by escaping from the fatality below to set them free. They are condemned to an immobility from their birth to their death so, therefore they know better than us how to stand up and rise in this rebellion for existence and penetrate into a moving and active world. We shall then see that Flowers sets Man a prodigious example of in-submission, courage, perseverance and ingenuity.

They constitute the backdrop of everyday life: lining the highway and framing backyards, growing and dying throughout the seasons. At birth, marriage and death, blossoms are prerequisites, as they are at a festive mealtime. We give flowers as tokens of love, friendship, homage, and as thanks for hospitality. Our houses are adorned with gardens, our cities with parks, and our nations with national reserves.

Partly by default or design, all of nature is now in the process of being domesticated, of finding itself under the roof of civilization for its survival.

These portraits intend to restore and honor Flower’s limelight, witnessing with my camera their subtle performances and embodiments of power while they overlook humankind and its belief in the ability to control global economies, geographical histories, and evolution. I am inviting Flowers to stand in the light claiming the undeniability of their existence.