Publisher's Synopsis
Jiang Zhi's flowers 'die' before our eyes - set aflame, they are on the brink of death, not yet devoured. It is this decisive moment we see, a fleeting, brazen instant, of mortality in a nutshell. Time is caught in its flight: each photograph is a powerful memento mori, like a time capsule, Jiang Zhi's photography explores the metaphysics of mortality. He makes us reconsider the ephemeral, the evanescent nature of things. Death and love are melted together reminiscent of the myth of Eros and Thanatos, but here, beauty overrides the macabre.
