In the photos taken and the art pieces created, I focused on the beauty of nature in death. The first sets of ideas were influenced by one of the most eminent female artists Georgia O’Keeffe. I began by researching about her work and the common use of flowers that she utilized in her paintings along with the juxtaposed objects such as a skull.
As I started to take photographs of dead flowers, many ideas came to mind including the change of color, texture, but most important of all how the flower maintains its essence in death while still being a flower. It is ironic that a flower has a certain period of living, however if its beauty never fades it becomes eternal.
The main purpose on my work was to depict this ‘other’ side of death. Many times death is portrayed as a phase that represents sadness, depression, and isolation. However there is another side to death, which represents tranquility, serenity, and peacefulness. All of these words portray a positive connotation. Death can be beauty and even in the phase of mortality, flowers are able to emphasize both exquisite and an inexplicable feeling of beauty.
Throughout the paintings, the use of the color brown and red are commonly found. Brown appears to be a neutral color and combined with red, it creates a rather vibrant and captivating feeling. In my paintings dark colors are commonly juxtaposed with light colors, as a representation of life and death in the stage of flowers and life in general.
In the process of my work I had the time to acknowledge and appreciate nature as a whole. It is only through simple and yet powerful living things like flowers which helped me realize the power of nature. Flowers have the ability to emphasize emotion, and feeling without the use of words. With a simple glimpse of a flower the tone of any environment becomes serene and purely filled with magnificence. 
'Calla Lily Pink' Digital Photograph
'Calla Lily Yellow' Digital Photograph
'Anthurium' Digital Photograph
'Unconscious Path' Oil on Canvas
'Deathless Decay' Oil on Canvas
'Can Death be Beauty'? Oil in Canvas
'Ultra Marine' Oil on Canvas
