“ego sum, qui memini” – remember me, as I am In this image,

I have the blossom of a yellow rose in a barren patch of ground. Our current representation of the yellow rose is about friendship, previously it represented infidelity. My main question asks more about how a man is remembered is who he is. The fleeting sunlight, shadows, and buried flower represent the things that are unseen and potentially forgotten to allow what is seen to be remembered. Do we remember a man for what he is or how we saw him?