Senescence

This project suggests a reflection using leaves and flowers as a visual metaphor for temporality and the impermanence of human life. Aging is a natural process of both living beings and plants, and this, scientifically, is called senescence. What makes me notice the plants from the moment they are resplendent until they reach senescence is how they gradually lose some of their youthful characteristics, such as aroma and splendor, and gain others as wrinkled and hardened shapes and textures. The senescence process of the plants gives rise to strongly colored pigments and these pigments cause a sometimes spectacular change in the color of the leaves. This transformation shows the marks of all the situations to which this plant has been exposed, from the sun's hottest and brightest ray, which accelerates its photosynthesis, to the most violent storm that causes its leaves to fall and its branches curl. They are the marks of their experiences.