It is traditional in our culture for a girl to receive twenty roses on the 16th of May the year she turns twenty. The twenty roses are meant to celebrate the pure passion, dreams, hopes, and love that await the girl in her future life as a woman. Yet, however much we celebrate them, as time passes, her pure passions, dreams, hopes, and love will most likely be disrupted and scattered and break, and she will need to restore and reconstruct herself to continue to rejoice in her life as a woman. The “re-roses†series comprises digitally recreated roses made by disassembling twenty roses into their constituent pieces, then mixing and combining each piece to create a set of unique roses. This represents the various stages of a woman’s life and portrays the idea that a woman’s life may not retain the perfect beauty of a freshly bloomed rose but can be restored and reconstructed to define its own unique levels of splendor.
