Transience is composed of a series of still-life flower paintings from the Rijksmuseum open source collection. Transience depicts a profusion of accurate floral details by dutch painters like Van Aelst, and Van der Ast. Though captured in full bloom, the flowers will soon wilt and brown, serving as a reminder that beauty fades and all living things must die, conveying a deeper message about life and death.

The very definition of still life alludes to something without life, without movement – an inanimate object. The works in this series are modified using an algorithm that brings the flowers back to life, yet slowly and steadily dissolves them in the process. In general, flowers symbolize innocence as well as impermanence - a reminder of the shortness of our existence and the fleeting nature of life's earthly pleasures.