Exploded Flowers in the Exploding Flowers Photo Series by Qi Wei

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

From the famous nursery rhyme about the gray goat, we know that the gray wolves attacked him, and "the horns and legs remained from the goat." Although the grandmother loved the goat very much … And the Chinese photographer Qi Wei shows us what will remain of beautiful, delicate, graceful flowers, if you take them apart, leave the "horns and legs" - the petals in one direction, the middle - in the other … Exploding flowers … Only if the goat in the form of horns and legs does not cause other emotions besides sadness, grief, resentment and tears, then the flowers, taken literally for "spare parts", do not lose their charm and continue to give people their beauty. True, in a slightly different form, unusual, but original and memorable.

Playing with petals, stamens and pistils, the photographer makes colorful geometric compositions of flowers, in which the flowers still remain recognizable. Take a look - and you will immediately determine where is the sunflower, and where is the rose, where is the lily, and where is the chrysanthemum, where is the carnation, and where is the gerbera. Yes, you can't give a girl such flora, you can't put it into a bouquet. But art requires sacrifices, and it's great that these sacrifices are bloodless.

Flower "suns" of red, yellow, white, pink and orange colors continue to smile at the audience from photographs, scattering petal rays in different directions. And the beauty of these photos once again proves that everything is ingenious is simple, and that the professionalism of the photographer is in stylish and sophisticated minimalism.