The word I had to focus on was 'Rejection' this has many negative meanings.

- ignored, alone, sad, girlfriend, fear, unknown, dismiss, exclude

When I was walking outside I realised that quite a few things are rejected.  The litter that people leave on the ground once belonged to someone and then disregarded, unattended gardens and houses that have become run down, all rejected.

I wanted to look at it from a different angle and look at the beauty of rejection. This made me think of cut flowers at homes in vases that have been forgotten to be watered and how they droop and dry up, but how beautiful they can still look.  In getting old, their appearance changes, their form, their colour, they may loose petals and start to curl in a different way, but something new is created and this at times can be beautiful.   

I asked my mum not to throw her cut flowers away when they started to die. I left them for a few more days, then set up a make shift studio hanging a piece of black cloth down from the floor above.  Because the cloth was not long enough, I had to raise the surface I worked on, I used a table, a stool, a two cubes. I used oasis to stand the flowers in, as this gave me quite a bit of control for where I wanted the flowers to sit.  

Using natural daylight, I photographed the flowers individually and together.

What would have been a good idea is to have photographed the flowers on a daily basis so that you could see the stages they went through.  Similar to that of Sam Taylor wood, when she filmed a bowl of fruit decaying.