Sakura Matsuri 2017 at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York. [April 2017]

Flowers blossom just to wither. But at least in that moment, it was pure, unadulterated beauty – the type of beauty that can only be found in nostalgia.

“I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.” — Erin Van Vuren