Over hundreds of years, humans have cultivated roses to have more desirable patterns, better scents, more saturated colors, and even a more graceful death. By asking the Juliet rose what it experiences from its revered cultural position, I seek to further understand how roses are using human desire to evolve and procreate themselves, and to what extent we are entranced in to performing their desires.

In this piece I "communicate" with the rare and costly Juliet rose, who reveals her strategy of using sensuality to co-opt human desire as a way to navigate her own species’ evolution.