Exhibition: "Wilting"

The series explores the idea of decay and the desire to preserve youth. The dried flowers and plants in each photograph symbolize the natural process of wilting; they reflect not only physical aging but also emotional aging, the accumulation of experience, and inner transformation. The plants are dry and lifeless, yet they still retain beauty. They are beautiful in their frozen form, but at the same time very fragile. The blurred surface, covered with different substances, serves as a metaphor for contemporary attempts to hide the marks of time. It alludes to social media filters, retouching, and the masks we use to conform to beauty standards and avoid accepting changes in our appearance. The blurriness also adds a sense of transience, fragility, and distance, emphasizing that these attempts only create a temporary illusion without negating reality. In creating these portraits, I reflect on what it means to age, change, and let go of the person I once was.