Glasses centrally placed against a background of blooming pink roses. The glasses have a dark frame and the lenses subtly distort the image of the roses behind them. The artistic editing - with strong outlines, heightened contrast and an almost drawn style - gives the whole thing a dreamy, almost surreal look.
The glasses represent clarity, insight and perspective. The idea that we see the world differently when we look through a certain lens.
The roses symbolise beauty, love, vulnerability and impermanence.
The glasses amid roses suggest that beauty only really becomes visible when we look closely - with attention, focus and maybe even a little help.
My husband ( Arie Lok ) and I are both fanatical photographers so we regularly go out together to photograph beautiful landscapes, animals, birds and actually everything that is beautiful.
He with his Nikon and I with my Canon.
We were regularly asked to do something with these photos, ..
Read more…