For me, the tulip is a symbol of obsession, beauty, and power— shaped as much by human desire as by nature. In 17th-century Holland, during the height of tulip mania, rare bulbs could cost as much as a canal house. Certain varieties were granted exalted titles—named for generals and admirals—transforming fragile flowers into commodities of status and masculine authority. The most coveted tulips were "broken" varieties, prized for their vivid, irregular patterns. These markings were caused by the Tulip Breaking Virus, a biological mutation that produced visual transformation while simultaneously weakening the plant and leading to its extinction. What appeared as beauty was, in fact, a visible trace of collapse. This project considers evolution as mutation, adaptation, and reinvention—across biology, culture, and photographic practice. Fascinated by these lost flowers, I construct my own "broken" tulips as deliberate fictions. Using real flowers as a base, I apply paint and incorporate my own drawings, assembling each bloom as a hybrid form that sits between organism and image. These constructed tulips are photographed using an 8x10 plate camera, and the negatives are hand-processed, situating the work within a lineage of early photographic methods while reimagining them through contemporary concerns. Across images and objects, the project proposes photography not only as a means of recording transformation, but as a process through which transformation occurs—reflecting how power, desire, and value continually evolve through images.