Manet and me                                                                          

Cut flowers are essentially dying flowers maybe even dead. At the end of his life Edoaurd Manet was bed ridden with ill health. Friends would visit the artist and bring him flowers which he painted. In all before his death he painted 17 of these flower paintings. The Burrell collection has one of these paintings 'pink and yellow rose in champagne glass'. There is a certain amount of immortality attributed to these paintings and I suppose you could say that by depicting death he achieved some kind of immortality. 

So I have taken a selfie with the painting to do something with it.