In looking at my own life and those around
me I found that we have a very sterile way at looking at life and death.
They each have their place but we can get uncomfortable if the two meet. This
project takes you through a journey by questioning your comfort with the separation
of life and death and tries to show you beauty where they meet.
I have used manly flowers to make this journey,
not because they are the best representation but simply because they made this
project possible. The flowers are representations of people. The first photo
has a white vignette with a living flower. This photo represents an acceptable
way to portray a portrait after they have died (note that the flower is well
and health). The second photo shows the same flower now dead, it has a clear
dark vignette. This again would be an acceptable photo of death. It “should”
not be happy so a visible dark vignette conveys that tone. The second set of
photos then reverses that idea black becomes white and white becomes black. Is
it okay for the white vignette to be around something dead? The rest of the photos
then show instances where life and death are together sometimes with life as
the focus with death not so prominent and others with death the subject and
life more hidden. What photographs are more beautiful? Why?
The last photo is of a child at here great
grandfathers grave. Life and death meeting for the first time.
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