“Black-and-white is something special. The history of the medium started there, even though our eyes perceive the world in colour and do not see things in monochrome: it is a unique world altogether, and if the first film had been a colour film there would probably be no monochrome images at all today. Nonetheless there is some kind of magic that keeps attracting us to the simplicity, the modernism, the sharpness of it.

I have spent the past seven years waiting for flowers to decay, and working to express in my own way the atmosphere of withered ones, with all the minute details, the beautiful moods and textures of what looks like wrinkled skin. Why is it that people are entranced by flowers?”