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 only partially visible but with the dark stems show just enough to recognize that they are a lily species; Callas. Because the flowers are not sharply depicted, attention is immediately drawn to the center, to the orange vase. This even makes the vase seem to stand out a bit.
I have made quite a series of these still lifes, each time with different vases and flowers. Sometimes very colorful, 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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