I took pictures of a match while it was burning down to represent our lives. As the flame grew down the match, it represents the time that we have on this world.

The match is a good example of showing others that we need to stop judging others for what they want to do. We need to focus on our lives and not focus on what others are doing as it’s wasting the minutes that we have on this world. A match can stop burning at anytime, just like our lives can stop at anytime. So why should we waste our life worrying about things that probably have no/little impact on us?

I went into photoshop and overlapped the images and removed the backgrounds on the layers so that the backgrounds wouldn’t clash with the original image.

I set the opacity of both layers to 50% so that the viewer can still see the other matches just like people can look into the past. Although we can look into the past, there are barriers just like the flames that have overlapped each other.

I left the background grey so that the flame would be the subject. The background is successful grey because it allows the viewer to see the burnt part of the match which is jet black.