Video: Shards of fresh flowers in the Broken Flowers art project
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
And the rose fell on Azor's paw … And broke into small pieces. What a nuisance! It would be, if it is a crystal or glass rose, broken through carelessness or prank. Flowers of a New York photographer Jon Shireman they do not break just like that, and do not fly apart as glass fragments. Photo series Broken flowers - these are real, fresh flowers, frozen and broken in the name of art. However, not everything is going smoothly with the meaning of this art project. After all, if we take as an axiom that a flower embodies the life of a person, and its wilting is old age and early death, then a broken flower is also death, but sudden and violent. Although it really was not without violence: the designer took a flower or a whole bouquet he liked, immersed it in liquid nitrogen, and then simply threw it on the floor - and looked through the camera lens at the colorful bright fragments, picturesquely scattered over a white background.
Fragile and vulnerable, deprived of their flexibility and elasticity, the flowers became very easy to break. The same happens to a person who loses resourcefulness and flexibility, ceases to shy away from attacks, kicks and slaps that life presents us with. Broken flowers are at the same time a fascinating sight, and very sad - it breathes with helplessness. But how beautiful are juicy orange, pink, purple and green shards, similar to pieces of precious stones, lying in a heap on the parquet floor!
Jon Scheirman, in fact, loves flowers very much. No wonder he has several photosets in his portfolio dedicated to these amazing plants that can instantly cheer up a woman of any age and bring a smile on her face. More information about the Broken Flowers project can be found on Jon Shireman's website.
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