Red flower / The Zone of Interest
Just before I left for London, I noticed this one red flower that had bloomed in my parents' garden.
It reminded me of a series of images that appear in Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest. There's a section that contains successive close-up shots of flowers; different kinds of dahlias, echinacea, peonies. There was also another series of red flowers that sinisterly appear in Richard Mosse-esque infrared. The film is largely set within one garden, where its tidiness and beauty is constantly maintained in the midst of barbarity. The flower images seduced me into a calm feeling, as did many of the other images, until I got to the end of the film, and my complacency hit me. I won't give anymore away, but I found the film a truly inspiring and important experience.
As for my mum's flower, the day I left for London, I photographed it; now picked and artfully arranged in a little vase in the bathroom.