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A still skin of color holds a restless gaze: a painting, a flower? Flowers’ symbolic and ornamental capacity wasn’t forged by humans, but the other way around: our ability to see is thanks to them. It is believed that color vision developed primarily to recognize plants – sources of medicine, sweetness, and nutrition – and flowers are the most precise way to identify them. In other words, if it weren't for flowers, painting wouldn't exist. At this point in history, the floral is a horror vacui of symbolisms: layers of desires and fears projected over layers of wonders and woes, economic, religious, and intimate. Powerful essences of meanings are distilled and concocted with images of flowers.