Experimental Still Life of Roses

Technically, this isn't a good edit. And that's fine. Sometimes you have to do the random ideas that pop into your head. And sometimes you have to do a low-quality job, to understand the ideas you're having.

Like always my work is looking at natural inanimate objects (flowers/fruit/veg/plants/etc). 

Currently, I'm interested in the use of colours. I've played with background colours, but never pulled out the colours of the subjects. Flowers have such bright, vivid colours, which is what draws us to their beauty. In a past project, I looked at removing the flower heads from the bouquets to take away societies ideals of beauty. But this time, I've played it up. I've added extra stripes of the bright colours to enhance and make them stand out further. The stripes are minimal and uniformed, giving the work a modern and sleeker look - in comparison to the natural flows and shapes of the flowers. 

The stripes create an almost flag-like look, reminding me of the Italian/Irish flags. 

If these were flags what would the colours represent for flowers? Pink: beauty, love, youth. Lilac: mourning. Green: jealousy/growth.

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