Rose with damaged petals - process

This is my first flower I made while working with metal and the first of my flower collection. The metal wire is fairly thick but fairly malleable which allowed manipulation of shape easily formed using just my hands. This is a progress shot so it is still incomplete, the name rose with damaged petals came from my most inspiring mentors, Lesane Parish Crooks, commonly known as Tupac. Not many people know much about him, they see the black rapper side of him, but when he was a teenager he wrote would write poetry, he was a poet before he was a musician. The Rose That Grew From Concrete, is a poem of his, it is this poem that has mostly inspired me to continue on in life. I can go on to talk about Tupac and how be is the rose that grew from concrete but I would be here for days, the point he got to was that anyone can defy the natural law of life and grow into something amazing even if they are being held back by a prisoning environment, but you see, people like to point the finger at it's damaged petals, don't blame the rose for it's damaged petals when it defied the law of nature when it grew from concrete.