There's a humble beauty to supermarket flowers, they often get a bad rep for being cheap and a quick "by the way" type of purchase. Still, I found them to be a perfect subject for this photo project. These flowers came from two simple supermarket bouquets and, with a little creativity, they took on an editorial look. The second half of this issue is a collection of wildflowers and tree flowers on a summer afternoon. Taken during the ever-elusive "golden hour" with a macro lens, these flowers demanded the attention of an expensive wedding-style bouquet. What I found the most interesting about working with these flowers is that they were the types to be often overlooked or basic, but I wanted to bring out the beauty and uniqueness in them.
The concept of these pieces was to examine a mirror effect with landscapes. The geometric shapes serve as a frame for the mirror effect.
I recently attended an event for creative women in my community. During the evening, one of the speakers asked us to share with those sitting around us why are smart and why we are strong. It proved to be a powerful exercise. In fact, it sparked the artwork you are about to see. I started noticing that we often focus on our external strengths and less about the attributes that make us the incredible, smart, strong women that conquer the world on a daily basis. We are all stronger because of the strong women in our lives. So take a moment to celebrate those women who brought you up in life.
My background in architecture is the main inspiration for these pieces. I love to look at architecture, I love to read about it, I especially love to talk about it! What’s always piqued my interest is the way buildings interact with their natural surroundings. In fact, the most successful buildings complement their environment, in my humble opinion. Over the past few years, my city has grown, multiplied. With this growth, we’ve seen a lot of buildings that have replaced what was there before them. We’ve also seen a lot of destruction of natural land to create luxury apartment complexes and residential properties of other sorts. People will say it’s necessary and they’re right, on one hand. We need places to house those coming here for work. We need better housing for our citizens.
Still, it’s sad to see that destruction for something so chunky to arise in the place of all that forest.
My favorite piece of architecture is the Glass House by Philip Johnson. A simple glass prism that invites the natural surroundings to become part of its architecture. When you’re inside it, you experience only the few furniture pieces of the interior and the magnificent view of the grounds. When you’re outside it, the structure doesn’t impose on the view of those grounds any less. It’s a part of the experience.
This series of prisms in nature is reminiscent on that experience. The idea that a good piece of architecture guides your view to see the beauty in things on which you would not normally focus. Still, they may give you a different impression. It’s art, after all!
This series started as an Instagram campaign. In fact, every piece in this publication was created for social media. They were my versions of weekly doodles that I would post with clever captions and tons of #hashtags. Those weekly exercises gave me a greater appreciation for the social media caption. Which leads us here... A collection of beautiful Instagram-worthy images remixed with their own captions. I wanted to explore the fun and cheeky side of social media, I wanted to share some basic instas with you all! #ENJOY
An afternoon walk through familiar streets with Bruno Mars. The photographs were all taken in a single afternoon and each image corresponds to a song on Bruno's 24K Magic album. These pieces are a fun exercise in typography, photography and the way that they can work together.