These pictures originally appeared in the 2014 VICE photo issue.
Rose Marie Cromwell is a photographer based between Brooklyn and Panama. See more of her work on her website.
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Rose Marie Cromwell: Wild Blooms of Bushwick
"The life of a flower is a fleeting moment, and it's this ephemeral nature that makes flowers so desirable. Perhaps an artificial flower represents an attempt to conquer death; a very human attempt, which imbues plastic flowers with their own aura of...