Heartbeats

My heart beats approximately 75 beats per minute and about 2.5 billion times in a whole lifetime. I have about 1.25 billion beats more to go. Even if I hold my breath it beats. I put my headphones on and if I don´t listen any music, I can hear my heart beating. If you come closer I can hear yours. I can hear many, sometimes too many… heavy. Doesn´t matter what I do, beating always stays. Sometimes faster and louder… but mostly it has the same rhythm through my whole life. Constant countdown to the final beat. The urge to beat the death.

Not to end morbid, this series of tulips is dedicated to all my heart has beaten and is beating to. The flowers are growing in my garden and are shot during their period of blooming which lasts about one month. They truly reminded me the heartbeats … my love, my love.