The beginning of the end

“The beginning of the end” explores the fragile threshold between beauty and impermanence. A luminous flower in full bloom appears radiant and untouched, suspended in a moment of apparent perfection. Yet a single petal has already begun its descent, surrendering to the darkness below, stripped of the light held by the living bloom above. From those depths emerges the skeletal form of the poppy capsule, a quiet metaphor for mortality and inevitability, a reminder that the architecture of endings exists within beginnings themselves. The work reflects on the unsettling truth that decline rarely announces itself dramatically; it often begins in silence, while beauty still appears whole. By placing vitality, loss, and death within the same intimate space, the painting invites reflection on fragility, the passing nature of time, and the quiet certainty that every moment of bloom already carries the seed of its own ending.