Nika Sandler believes, like modern biologists, that plants feel pain. Plants suppress their pain by secreting natural substances, and they also react to anesthetics like animals and people do.

Sandler's photography bears witness to the unconventional beauty of both plant and human pain, decay, and death. They compare the external manifestations of plant illness and death with the bodily suffering of dying people, finding common ground between the tragic sides of plant and human existence.