Floral: A Permanent Bloom

This series inspect plastic flowers as objects suspended between imitation and permanence—artificial forms that mimic organic life while remaining untouched by its natural cycles. They never change, never wilt, never die. Looked at closely, their surfaces appear flawless: petals that do not bruise, colors that do not fade, and forms that resist time. They preserve the appearance of what time inevitably takes away, while reminding us that what is preserved is not the thing itself.

In photographing plastic flowers, I return to the simple reality that they do not wilt. In their resistance to decay, they quietly expose the fragility of everything that does. Their design is not natural; it is imposed. Yet within that artificiality, they begin to reflect something deeply human: the desire to hold on, to stabilize what is inherently unstable, and to keep beauty from slipping away.

The work does not attempt to disguise the synthetic nature of its subject. Instead, it allows the artificial to exist as its own kind of truth. These photographs are as much about memory as they are about material. Plastic flowers become stand-ins for the things we try to preserve—gestures of care, symbols of grief, tokens of celebration, and reminders of people or moments that have passed. The flowers do not change, but our relationship to them does. Over time, they accumulate meaning not through growth or decay, but through presence.

This series explores permanence as both comfort and illusion. It asks what it means to preserve something that was never alive, and why that act can still feel like holding onto something real.