A Beautiful Yet Decayed Bouquet: A Visual Metaphor

Concept: The Bloom of Decay Books Name : Burning at the both ends. a beautiful bouquet of flowers, but upon closer inspection, some petals are burned at the edges, curling like cigarettes left too long in an ashtray, others are wilting and bruised, veins dark like heroin tracks, scarlet-red drops drip from the stems, resembling both blood and ink, the flowers are wrapped in newspaper clippings, with headlines blurred, as if their pain is just another forgotten tragedy, in the background, smoke and mist intertwine, forming faint silhouettes of two girls, one with blonde hair and one with brown hair looking away from each other yet tied together by the bouquet's ribbon-fragile and fraying.