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Nothing Gold Can Stay

A photo sequence inspired by the poem 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' by Robert Frost.

 

I was inspired by the themes of the transience of youth and beauty and how in our society, a woman’s value decreases once these things are gone. I took inspiration from young women characters that die young and how they are idealised and romanticised because they died while young and beautiful - still in their “prime”. Ophelia from Hamlet was one such character I took influence from and specifically the painting by John Everett Millais.

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

Then Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

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Nothing gold can stay.

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