The stalks of these flowers are already dried up, but their blossoms are preserved and kept fresh by the medical infusion bags. The life-span of every living creature is limited. The infusion bags stand for the progress in medicine and the prolongation of human life. They somehow carry an ambivalent message as they refer to both death and life the same time. To preserve the beauty of the flowers artificially with the help of the infusion bags points out man’s inclination to repress the fact that he has to die and to postpone death.

Lt. Col. David Grossman’s book On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society has a great explanation of how the understanding or acceptance of death and it’s natural place in our world has been lost generation after generation. We no longer have an understanding of death and it’s place, and that’s a dangerous thing.

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