TO WITHER

Withering Tulip…

I am creating a flower photo series and it’s coming along slowly, but I don’t want to simply show only the blooming beauty of flowers. Like us, they go through gloom and transformational stages. They have to wither, to die, to hibernate, in order to bloom again for the next season. Sometimes, they just wither simply because they’re not sufficiently nurtured. This is the same flaw with the human design. The process of birth, death & rebirth, of constant transformations, and transitions from one phase of life to whatever comes next. Everyone and everything withers, as time takes from us, with each waking moment. In what ways are you reborn? There is beauty in everything. In birth & in withering. One does not and cannot exist without the other. For birth must cause death, and endings begets beginnings. It is the beauty and inevitability of life.

— Tolú