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This series of botanical photographs is concerned with the passage of time, the way all things grow, age, and decay, and how it manifests itself beautifully in objects. They suggest that beauty is hidden beneath the surface of what we actually see, even in what we initially perceive as broken, old, worn or withered. 

 

They remind us to accept what is, to stay in the present moment, to appreciate the simple, to embrace the aesthetics of aging,  to recognize the beauty of the effects of time and embrace the transient nature of life.

 

I started this project in the midst of my process of coming back to life after the loss of my wife to breast cancer in 2020. It’s been a part of my healing and a way to help me come to terms with aging and mortality. Something I have needed to do. A friend asked me, “has it worked?” I believe it has, and is.

 

It has taught me to celebrate the aging process both in myself and others and moreover to see beauty in myself and others.  I see these images as pictorial allegories for aging gracefully, beautifully, vitally and dynamically, to portray the heaviness of decay with lightness, vitality and beauty, a juxtaposition of the horrible and the sublime...the human experience.