The Dying Plant

I have never been a huge fan of flowers or plants in general. They just seem to be very thoughtless and typical in most cases. There are too many relationships between flowers and occasions..funerals,weddings,apologies, thank yous and so on.

There was a Poinsettia(I believe) on my kitchen table and it appears to be in the process of dying. As morbid as it may sound, I find beauty in decaying objects such as this plant in front of me. Its just intriguing to me that people are given flowers to cheer them up, when they always end up dying within a week or so. Why give them something that's going to wither up?

I felt the need to draw it for a few reasons: I have no drawn anything realistic in a long time , one of my artistic weakness is drawing still life of plants and I was very interested in taking note of this death.