The Rose Remembers, 2025, photography and encaustic, 4 x 4 in. / 10.16 x 10.16 cm.

The Rose Remembers, Nafia Syeed, 2025, photography and encaustic, 4 x 4 in. / 10.16 x 10.16 cm.

The Rose Remembers captures love’s enduring essence. Through my lens, a dried red rose is preserved in encaustic layers, its beauty unfading. Embellished with gold leaf and mosaic, it whispers of time and devotion, a reminder that even as petals fade, their story lingers in the heart’s quiet