The FLOWERS from the series Roses shows casualness in the arrangement of objects. With its organic streak, this group is very spontaneous: tulips, roses, peonies, magnolias, water arums, and many others from the garden or elsewhere, serve to write an intimate « journal » or a kind of « flowers’ diary » of the Cartiers’ daily lives and document their affection for plants. The flowers, lethargic or delicately dancing, suggest the elegance of bodies in movement. FLOWERS certainly evokes the passing of time, but it seems to manifest no more than the tranquil, natural rhythm of it subjects. The beauty of this series derives perhaps from its mingling of life and death so closely.