We’ve all seen flowers and heard of the “he loves me, he loves me not,” method of pulling off flower petals to predict if someone loves you. Fong Qi Wei, takes the removal of petals to a new level in his series of photographs of deconstructed flowers.
Wei is a conceptual fine art photographer who is based in Singapore, who views role of artist is to be a communicator what he calls an authentic message. He writes on his site, “I try to engage my audience by providing a new perspective on familiar subjects or themes. Through my art, I hope to introduce my point of view to my viewer and engage them beyond aesthetics. I wish to provoke them to think further about the familiar and ordinary.”
His series called Exploded flowers presents the beauty and design of flowers by taking flowers and presented them in a manner similar to a dissection. Each piece is separated and presented next to the other parts. The results is images that show the radial symmetry of flowers, and presents the moment of time in which a flower is still alive and in bloom.
He writes about the series, “… what is interesting to me is how much more expanded some flowers can get when they are disassembled – the relative surface area to size of a rose is so much greater compared to a larger flower like the sunflower.” The series has been featured in publications that include The Boston Globe and My Modern Met, and can be seen on his website fqwimages.com.
Image Source:
http://fqwimages.com/2011/08/exploded-flowers-3/
Links:
http://fqwimages.com/2011/08/exploded-flowers-3/