"Tomorrow's Nostalgia" Original Mixed Media Painting on 20x20 Canvas

Sunflowers face the window.
Thick heads. Burnt gold.
Seeds packed tight as decisions.
Nothing lasts here.
The irises know it.
As do the daisies.
Still, the flowers lean forward.
Bathing in full light. 
They do not save anything,
This is the work.
To face what feeds you.
To burn.
To hold color.
To stand while you can.

This painting is an ode to Van Gogh. He painted flowers the way someone documents a fire. Not to preserve it, but to stand close while it burned. That intensity lives here. The choice of irises, sunflowers, daisies, each at a different stage of endurance, turns the arrangement into a measure of time rather than decoration

I wanted them to be symbolic of Impermanence. Impermanence is what keeps us honest. We cannot possess life, or people, or moments, we can only participate. That participation asks for presence, not ownership. A flower does not belong to the season, it happens within it. We are the same. Temporary events inside a larger movement we do not control.

"Tomorrow's nostalgia" refers to the concept of living in the present moment with such intention, appreciation, or intensity that it will be fondly remembered and longed for in the future.