Two large canvases depict an unsettling black cat sitting partly camouflaged on a gloomy staircase, and a similarly striking painting of a bouquet of dead flowers juxtaposes natural and geometric forms with the menacing air of a film noir. (studiointernational.com)
Snapping or cutting dead flower heads can enhance the flowering performance of many perennials. (idealhome.co.uk)
The 2010 exhibition Dead Flowers, based on the work of actor / director Timothy Carey and curated for Vox Populi, an artist collective in Philadelphia, is a manifestation of this inquiry, which grew out of an essay commissioned for the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night. (bard.edu)