This thesis includes essays as still lifes. Still lifes are inherently personal, as someone's creation; yet, the creator may not be the main subject of the still life, or the essay. Instead, the themes of time, death, love, and loneliness are unraveled through the narratives of the still-life subjects, and put on display. This thesis also explores how these themes interact with one another; how love distorts time and beauty; how motion warps time, and stillness incurs loneliness; how death is a stillness, but not loveless. It is my lyrical meandering through the different interpretations and identities of a "still life." With an ode to brevity, these essays gesture towards the moments and memories that are born before we become a still life; they are somber moments arranged to be beautiful and sad—romanticized, in a way. Thus: a floral redistribution
