All flowers age at different rates, even when they share the same vase and environment. In the arrangement I have been studying recently, the snapdragon began to wilt much more quickly than the tulips and calla lily, and that contrast became the focus of this piece.
Watching them together made me think about how similar this is to people. We all move through life at different rates, shaped by our experiences, circumstances, and the environments we exist within. Some changes become visible earlier, while others take much longer to appear. Even when we seem to be moving through the same moments side by side, our experiences of time are never exactly the same.
I often think about flowers as mirrors of the human experience, and this painting became a way of reflecting on how aging is not a uniform process. Just as no two flowers wilt in exactly the same way, no two people grow older in exactly the same way either.
