Preservation

I have always been interested in the idea of Preservation.The piece in the Tate Britian collection that I am most drawn to, is Anya Gallacio's 'Preserve Beauty'. The irony of the piece in relation to the title is quite shocking, however I feel that the peace is subtle and beautiful a representation of the impossibility of preservation as the thousands of bright flowers have grown brow and produced a dark liquid that stains the walls of the Tate.I feel that the work is almost a monument to the inevitable failure of preservation and a human obsession with a fight against time and it is through thinking about this that I began.