A vase of flowers, but photographed from above. An alternative point of view that produces a simple graphic image. Almost abstract.
The flowers themselves are not visible and the bright green stems are hardly a clue as to which flowers are involved. The flower stems form a rather complex pattern in the center of the photo.
The large red-orange vase contrasts sharply with the flower stems.
I have made quite a series of these still lifes, each time with different vases and flowers. Sometimes very colorful as in this work, sometimes more subdued .
In the title of the work you can often recognize where or from whom I bought the vase. Or borrowed it.
After leaving the academy in 1984, I painted for many years. Since about twenty years I have really only made photographic works. Mostly still lifes with glass vases. Glass is a fantastic -but also difficult- material to photograph.
I like to put people on the wrong foot with my works...
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