Physics or Art

black and white rose

If I say to you white is all, black is absence. If you say to me black is all and white is absence. Are we talking about light or pigment? Are we talking about physics or art? Or are we cheering the home team?

Decay of velvet
Heathens among the roses
Thorns, attar of dirt

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