The flowers I collect to pose as models in front of the camera always evoke mixed feelings. On the one hand, I create a beautiful image, admiring their tenderness and fragility. On the other hand, I feel a sense of guilt—for taking their lives in exchange for their portrait.

 

   I decided to express this ambivalent emotional experience visually: when an object evokes conflicting feelings within a person. This complex range of emotions reveals the limitations of the familiar mental habit of dividing everything into black and white. In truth, we cannot deny the oneness of feelings. You can love and hate at the same time. Contradictory emotions are always trying to meet at a single point.

 

  When you embrace emotional duality on a conscious level, you begin to see its beauty.