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Have you ever thought about why people mostly take and share photos of flowers when they are fresh, alive, and still able to remain beautiful? Why do they photograph them, look at them, and admire how beautiful they are?
But no one talks about the effort, the struggle, that a flower goes through while becoming beautiful.
Sharing a flower in its worst state comes from a place that everyone does not want to see, yet deep down we all know what it will eventually become. It is our fear of that transformation.
Have you ever seen flowers photographed when they are dead? Or loved when they are dead? No. Because they are no longer beautiful.
When you look at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the flowers are neither fresh nor completely dead. They seem to be somewhere in between.
Van Gogh was that kind of painter too: caught in between. He could not escape the thin line between his emotions and his life.
No one truly understood the wild, lonely world behind the struggle he carried just to be able to paint.
But when Van Gogh painted Sunflowers, the flowers he saw were not fresh flowers. He kept flowers in his home that resembled himself… Mavien Seçkin

Have you ever thought about why people mostly take and share photos of flowers when they are fresh, alive, and still able to remain beautiful? Why do they photograph them, look at them, and admire how beautiful they are?
But no one talks about the effort, the struggle, that a flower goes through while becoming beautiful.
Sharing a flower in its worst state comes from a place that everyone does not want to see, yet deep down we all know what it will eventually become. It is our fear of that transformation.
Have you ever seen flowers photographed when they are dead? Or loved when they are dead? No. Because they are no longer beautiful.
When you look at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the flowers are neither fresh nor completely dead. They seem to be somewhere in between.
Van Gogh was that kind of painter too: caught in between. He could not escape the thin line between his emotions and his life.
No one truly understood the wild, lonely world behind the struggle he carried just to be able to paint.
But when Van Gogh painted Sunflowers, the flowers he saw were not fresh flowers. He kept flowers in his home that resembled himself…