“Nobody sees a flower,
really — it is so small — we haven’t time, and to see takes time,
like to have a friend takes time.” Georgia O’Keefe
The series called Breath is about looking. Many of the images in this series are photograms. A photogram is made without a camera, without a negative. To make these images the flower is placed directly under the enlarger light. The image is then captured on photographic paper. These photograms are a very special way for me to "look". They ask one to see the flower in a particularly intimate way.
Look closely at some of the images and you can see the plant juices ooze out of the flower as it is crushed between the pieces of glass. The still life images of flowers arrange themselves in beautiful patterns to be captured by the photographer’s lens. Those images that are not flowers are also about seeing, about seeing the beauty in everyday simplicity, a café chair, a pair of feet or whatever.
— Roxanne Worthington
The series called Breath is about looking. Many of the images in this series are photograms. A photogram is made without a camera, without a negative. To make these images the flower is placed directly under the enlarger light. The image is then captured on photographic paper. These photograms are a very special way for me to "look". They ask one to see the flower in a particularly intimate way.
Look closely at some of the images and you can see the plant juices ooze out of the flower as it is crushed between the pieces of glass. The still life images of flowers arrange themselves in beautiful patterns to be captured by the photographer’s lens. Those images that are not flowers are also about seeing, about seeing the beauty in everyday simplicity, a café chair, a pair of feet or whatever.
— Roxanne Worthington
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