What is beautiful?
People associate beauty first and foremost with life. What is beautiful is always alive. Something dead cannot be beautiful.
Everything that grows and bears fruit speaks to us about life, and therefore about beauty. This is why beauty is often associated with greenery and flowers.
We are accustomed to perceiving plants in two states—growing and cut. In both cases, the plant is still alive. What happens after that?
The third life for a plant is wilting—fragility, brittleness. But it is precisely this state that carries within it two lives before it, gathering all the preceding beauty.
The third life is a tactile object composed of dead plants undergoing post-mortem transformation within the composition itself. As each plant changes, deforms, and dries, it lives its third life while remaining beautiful.
