I return quite often to the simple idea of contrasting the concepts of life and death in my photographs. I do this in many ways, often by juxtaposing foliage with graveyard headstones. I do that in this image, framing an old and almost illegible headstone with rhythmic repetition of the delicate vegetation surrounding it. The leaves seem to be gently stroking the headstone, symbolically expressing the continuing process of nature’s lifecycle.