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Description
Flowerpots in lines.
Well fertilised flowers
Held in healthy captivity.
All neatly labelled.
Symmetry.
A sign of order that makes us feel
safe.
Labelling things gives a sense
that everything is in its right place.
One flower stem falls over and breaks
the monotony.

I made this photograph a long time ago when I was first learning photography and it's not my style now, but it still means something to me about how humans so often like to control things and label them. I thought about adding some text onto the image, but I wanted to avoid a cliched message so I wrote the description instead. It's a scanned transparency. It could have gone into 'nature', but that didn't seem appropriate

Description
Flowerpots in lines.
Well fertilised flowers
Held in healthy captivity.
All neatly labelled.
Symmetry.
A sign of order that makes us feel
safe.
Labelling things gives a sense
that everything is in its right place.
One flower stem falls over and breaks
the monotony.

I made this photograph a long time ago when I was first learning photography and it's not my style now, but it still means something to me about how humans so often like to control things and label them. I thought about adding some text onto the image, but I wanted to avoid a cliched message so I wrote the description instead. It's a scanned transparency. It could have gone into 'nature', but that didn't seem appropriate