"The vase and composition are very special to me and I have worked with it often. Meaning comes from intimacy with these repetitive motifs, a constant return to the delicacy and beauty of the forms and trying to capture the mood and atmosphere and emotion. Fragility, femininity but also the longevity and strength of the ageing stems and paper like petals. I am fascinated and held by the way in which petals become casts almost fossils of the flower. They leave a cast of their beauty as they die and wither. Is that a metaphor for life where we are held by the beauty of some moments that remain with us always, an invisible axis of emotion." Artist Notes - Fiona