Orchid Alone
by Sylvia Thornton
Title
Orchid Alone
Artist
Sylvia Thornton
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
These are photos from McDaid elementary school. The school is being demolished to replace it with a more functional, newer building. My mother taught at this school for 20 years and I attended CCD there on Saturdays as a kid. This is my attempt to see the beauty in it's demolition.
When I saw this photo, I loved the look of the open sky through the window frame. Then I thought there should be an elegant flower sitting in the window, and what is more elegant than a beautiful white orchid? The clay colored flowerpot also compliments the broken bricks on the windowsill.
I enjoy doing abstract photo pieces very much.
Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete. Abstraction exists along a continuum. Even art that aims for verisimilitude of the highest degree can be said to be abstract, at least theoretically, since perfect representation is likely to be exceedingly elusive. Artwork which takes liberties, altering for instance color and form in ways that are conspicuous, can be said to be partially abstract. Total abstraction bears no trace of any reference to anything recognizable. In geometric abstraction, for instance, one is unlikely to find references to naturalistic entities. Figurative art and total abstraction are almost mutually exclusive. But figurative and representational (or realistic) art often contains partial abstraction.
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July 16th, 2013
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